Grant Wood Prints For Sale at the Library

Prints and note cards illustrated with Grant Wood's painting titled

"New Road" are available for purchase at the Solon Public Library.

Grant Wood Print "New Road"
Finding Grant Wood's "New Road" (PDF)


“New Road” belongs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.  It was gifted to them by Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Strasburger in 1982.  The painting is one of only two Grant Wood works owned by the National Gallery.  Permission was granted to reproduce this painting for fund-raising purposes. The oil painting, created in 1939, depicts a pastoral scene about five miles west of Solon. In the foreground is a simple wooden marker which reads "SOLON 5 MI".

Where is New Road?

New Road is a landscape painted in 1939 of an area somewhere near Solon. Grant Wood likely painted New Road from a location along Mehaffey Bridge Road where it intersected 200th Street. The best guess is he was positioned on top of the south bank, facing north, toward the old bridge crossing Jordan Creek.

The present landscape of valleys and rolling hills match those depicted in the painting and the 1930 aerial photos show both landmarks and buildings present when he painted New Road. Things have changed since 1939, eliminating many of the landmarks, but a visit to the site today still evokes the vista that Grant Wood painted.

 

Availability of mat colors and frame woods varies. Please visit the library to see what is currently available.

5x7" Note Cards with Envelopes

Large unframed prints (Picture is 12 3/4" high x 15" wide with a 2" border on 3 sides and 3" border on bottom)

Large prints, matted and framed 

 

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