In this artwork, how is the History discussed?
After Arnold Comes of Age was completed, Wood entered it into the 1930, Iowa State Fair Art Salon. Wood was well-established at the time and had earlier exhibited at galleries in Paris. However, as a regionalist committed to promoting the artistic movement, he decided to show Arnold Comes of Age and other paintings in Iowa instead. Arnold Comes of Age won the grand prize, and his painting Stone City, Iowa won the landscape category.Arnold Comes of Age was displayed in a 1940 Nebraskan show alongside Stone City, Iowa and John B. Turner, Pioneer, a portrait of the father of his patron David Turner that Wood completed in 1929–30. These were all offered for sale, each at a price of between $300 and $400. The board of trustees for the Nebraska Art Association paid $300 for Arnold Comes of Age, while the Joslyn Art Museum of Omaha acquired Stone City, Iowa. It has since become one of the most valuable pieces within the Association's permanent collection, and resides at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Sheldon Museum of Art holds the artwork of the association, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and other collections.For years, it was not shown publicly due to its significant deterioration: discoloration, extensive craquelure, and varnish disappearance plagued the painting. The bathing figures were, according to Donald Bartlett Doe of the Sheldon, "nearly obliterated". These problems began some ten years after its completion, but by 1985, they were addressed through restoration.
Joslyn Art Museum regionalist patron craquelure restoration Sheldon Museum of Art University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska Omaha Stone City, Iowa Iowa State Fair Art Salon Iowa State Fair Iowa Paris