{"id":1072,"date":"2010-08-23T12:58:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:02:41","slug":"plaid-sweater-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2010\/08\/23\/plaid-sweater-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaid Sweater returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being displaced along with the rest of the UI Museum of Art in the 2008 floods, Grant Wood’s celebrated 1931 painting Plaid Sweater<\/em> is back\u00a0in town<\/a>. For those of you unable to drop by its new home in\u00a0the student union’s\u00a0Richey Ballroom, it’s\u00a0one of the nearly 10,000 items available for browsing in the Iowa\u00a0Digital Library’s University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection<\/a>. While you’re there, you can also check out the original plaid sweater<\/a> worn in the painting — slightly disguised, since the sleeves\u00a0were subsequently shortened to allow use in warmer weather.<\/p>\n

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“Plaid Sweater<\/em> is a portrait of Mel Blumberg of Clinton, Iowa. According to Wood\u2019s sister, Nan, he was to paint the boy, but did not want him to be wearing his ‘Sunday Best’ for the portrait. He was discussing the matter when the subject burst into the room wearing the plaid sweater and carrying a football. Grant Wood thought this was the perfect way to represent the football player; the portrait was not to be staged, and Wood shows the boy as a heroic archetype of the ‘All-American Boy.’ Wood portrays this youth as a healthy symbol of the future and a natural extension of his environment.” — http:\/\/uima.uiowa.edu\/grant-wood\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After being displaced along with the rest of the UI Museum of Art in the 2008 floods, Grant Wood’s celebrated 1931 painting Plaid Sweater is back\u00a0in town. For those of you unable to drop by its new home in\u00a0the student union’s\u00a0Richey Ballroom, it’s\u00a0one of the nearly 10,000 items available for browsing in the Iowa\u00a0Digital Library’sContinue reading “Plaid Sweater returns!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}