The Stone City Art Colony and School 1932-1933
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The 1932 Stone City Art Colony. Photograph by John W. Barry. Photo provided and used with permission of James Savage, son of Thomas Savage, a colony member.

The 1932 Stone City Art Colony
Photograph by John W. Barry, Jr. Photo provided and used with
 permission of James Savage, son of Thomas Savage, a colony member.


NOTE: All profiles were developed through a variety of resources, such as letters, interviews, email, reference titles, databases, and websites.  This bibliography includes sources of general interest or background to the project.  Sources relating to specific individuals are found in the Individual Bibliographies page. Several electronic sources are included on the individual profile pages when available.


ABC-Clio.  American History and Life.  Periodical Database.

American National Biography Online.  Reference Database.  Available: http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html 

Andreas Atlas Company.  Illustrated Historical Atlas of Iowa, 1875.  [Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society, 1970]. 

Art Index. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1929-. 

Art Index.  Reference Database.

“The Arts: Graphic and Plastic Arts.”  In Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye State.  New York: Viking Press, 1938, pp.140-149. 

“The Arts: Graphic and Plastic Arts.”  In The WPA Guide to 1930s Iowa.  Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1986, pp. 140-149.  

AskArt.com: The Artists Bluebook.  Available: http://www.askart.com 

Brown, Hazel E. Grant Wood and Marvin Cone: Artists of an Era.  Ames, IA: Iowa State University, 1972.  

Burns, E. Bradford.  Kinship with the Land: Regionalist Thought in Iowa, 1894-1942.  Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1996. 

Cron, Robert. “Iowa Club to Form Art Colony at Stone City.”  Des Moines Sunday Register 8 May 1932: A1. 

Dawson, Patricia, and David Hudson.  “Visual Arts (except photography).” In Iowa History and Culture: A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986.  Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1989, p. 96-101. 

DeLong, Lea Rosson, and Gregg R. Narber.  A Catalog of New Deal Mural Projects in Iowa.  [Des Moines, IA]: L.R. DeLong, 1982. 

Dennis, James M. Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Drake, Jeannette M., compiler.  Brief Information Concerning Iowa Artists.  Sioux City, IA: Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1917. 

Green, Edwin B. “Chronology: Grant Wood of Iowa.”  The Palimpsest 53.1 (January 1972): 25-27. 

Green, J.A. “The Development of Stone City.” Annals of Iowa (April, 1936): 304-308. 

Hamlin, Gladys E. “Mural Painting in Iowa.”  The Iowa Journal of History and Politics 37.3 (1939): 227-307. 

Humanities Index.  New York: H.W. Wilson, 19--. 

International Index to Periodicals.  New York: H.W. Wilson, 19--. 

Iowa State University, University, Parks Library.  “Grant Wood Murals: About the Murals.”  Retrieved 20 November 2002.  Available: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/cfora/generic.cfm?cat=arts_murals_wood&navid=10701&parent=3000&disp=classic&pagemode= 

Iowa State University, Parks Library.  “Grant Wood Mural: Other Arts Follow: Engineering Panel.”  Retrieved 14 February 2005.  Available: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/cfora/generic.cfm?cat=arts_murals_wood&navid=10705&parent=3000&disp=classic&pagemode= 

Iowa State University, Parks Library.  “Grant Wood Mural: When Tillage Begins: Breaking the Prairie.”  Retrieved 20 November 2002.  Available: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/cfora/generic.cfm?cat=arts_murals_wood&navid=10702&parent=3000&disp=classic&pagemode= 

Kalfatovic, Martin R. The New Deal Fine Arts Projects: A Bibliography, 1933-1992.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. 

Lorance, Nancy.  “W.P.A. – New Deal Art During the Great Depression.”  Retrieved 29 October 2002.  Available: http://www.wpamurals.com 

Mecklenburg, Virginia.  The Public as Patron.  College Park, MD: The University of Maryland, 1979.  Accessed 7 November 2002. No longer available online.

Murray, Janette Stevenson, and Frederick Gray Murray.  “Art in Cedar Rapids.”  From The Story of Cedar Rapids.  New York: Stratford House, 1950, pp.206-222. 

Muyskens, Joan.  “Stone City, Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 39.4 (Spring, 1968): 261-274. 

Narber, Gregg R. “These Murals were a New Deal.”  The Iowan 32.3 (1984): 8-17, 54. 

Ness, Zenobia B., and Louise Orwig, compilers.  Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years.  [Des Moines, IA]: Wallace-Homestead Company, 1939. 

Petersen, William J. Iowa History Reference Guide Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1952. 

Petteys, Chris.  Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900.  Boston: G.K. Hall and Company, 1985. 

Reid, John Cantwell. The Papers of John Cantwell Reid, 1933-1962. (MsC 436) Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA.  

Sage, Leland L. “Iowa Writers and Painters: An Historical Survey.”  Annals of Iowa 42.4 (Spring 1974): 241-270. 

State Historical Society of Iowa.  Iowa Heritage Illustrated.  Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1996-. 

State Historical Society of Iowa.  The Palimpsest.  Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1920-1995. 

“Stone City Art Colony opens with 100 students enrolled.”  Cedar Rapids Gazette 27 June 1933. 

Taylor, Adeline.  “Sickle and Sheaf, Recreation Center for Art Colony, is Christened at Stone City.”  Cedar Rapids Gazette 2 July 1933. 

United States Works Progress Administration, Fine Arts Program.  WPA Artwork in Non-Federal Repositories.  Washington, D.C: U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service, Historic Buildings and the Arts Center of Expertise, Fine Arts Program, 1999. 

Whiting, F.A., Jr.  “Stone, Steel, and Fire: Stone City Comes to Life.”  American Magazine of Art 25.6 (1932): 333-342.


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