Sioux City, Iowa (RI) — The first floor of the Sioux City Art Center has been transformed with two exhibits that celebrate Iowa’s agricultural history. Curator Christopher Atkins says you will enter and see a colorful display called “Pasture to Present.”
He says you will think you are at the Iowa State Fair because there’s a butter cow and many other fair-related pieces in the sculpture.
Atkins says their first-floor gallery is displaying the restored Grant Wood ‘Corn Mural.’ The mural panels had been commissioned for a Sioux City hotel and had been painted over.
Atkins says there has been a great anticipation to see the mural panels restored closer to what they were when Woods created them 100 years ago
There are several other related works on display at the art center to complement the Corn Mural, which will remain on permanent display. The agricultural art exhibit will be there until December 6th.
