Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas

Remembering the Family Farm

150 Years of American Prints

Mountain Homestead by Grant Arnold
Grant Arnold United States, 1904- 1988
Mountain Homestead, 1940
Lithograph

Spencer Museum of Art, anonymous gift, 1998.0205 Born in the Brooklyn, New York, Arnold is most frequently associated with the Woodstock Artists' Association in Woodstock, New York, where he was an instructor in lithography from 1932-1940. This scene shows a decentralized farm with a variety of outbuildings, each with a special function. These include a smokehouse, poultry housing, implement shed, and barn. Sources