UMass alumna Allison Sobke Slaby, the curator at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has curated the fall exhibition at the museum.

“Grant Wood and the American Farm” explores the central role the family farm played in the creation of an American identity. The exhibition gives particular attention to the Regionalist artist Grant Wood.  Wood’s iconic painting Spring Turning is in the museum’s collection. Other artists in the exhibition, from some of the nation’s top collections, include Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur Dove, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth.  Fellow UMass alumnus Bill McCrea, Director of Regional Museums in the North Carolina Division of State History Museums, facilitated loans of farm implements from the Museum of the Albemarle in eastern North Carolina.

The exhibition will be on view from September 9^th to December 31^st, 2016.

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Photo: Allison Sobke Slaby and Bill McCrea between a painting in the exhibition, Junius Brutus Stearns's Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon, and a wagon wheel borrowed from the Museum of the Albemarle.