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Marvin Cone (1891 - 1964) was active/lived in Iowa.  Marvin Cone is known for Landscape, figure, still-objects.

Marvin Cone was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, where in 1906 he began a lifelong friendship with Grant Wood.  He graduated from Coe College in 1914 and then studied for several years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

World War I interrupted his studies, and after being stationed near New Mexico, Cone left for France in 1917, where he served for several years as an interpreter.  In 1919, Cone studied for about five months at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpellier, France.  When he returned to Cedar Rapids that year, he continued to pursue his interest in art.  He considered commercial art, but chose instead to accept a position teaching French at Coe College for the 1919-1920 academic year.

In Cedar Rapids, Cone quickly renewed his friendship with Grant Wood and resumed his active involvement with the local Art Association (now the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art).  Cone and Wood went abroad in the summer of 1920, hoping   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3136 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Marvin Cone

   Marvin Cone  Born:  1891 - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Died:   1964 - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Known for:  Landscape, figure, still-objects

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Marvin Cone was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, where in 1906 he began a lifelong friendship with Grant Wood.  He graduated from Coe College in 1914 and then studied for several years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

World War I interrupted his studies, and after being stationed near New Mexico, Cone left for France in 1917, where he served for several years as an interpreter.  In 1919, Cone studied for about five months at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpellier, France.  When he returned to Cedar Rapids that year, he continued to pursue his interest in art.  He considered commercial art, but chose instead to accept a position teaching French at Coe College for the 1919-1920 academic year.

In Cedar Rapids, Cone quickly renewed his friendship with Grant Wood and resumed his active involvement with the local Art Association (now the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art).  Cone and Wood went abroad in the summer of 1920, hoping to improve their technical skills.  The visit proved influential, resulting in a stunning series of impressionistic views of picturesque cityscapes and landscapes, Paris streets and gardens, and the French countryside.  Architecture and landscape fascinated Cone for the rest of his life.  He returned to Paris with his wife Winnifred in 1929 and traveled to Mexico in 1939.

The Stone City area near Anamosa, Iowa provided the setting for many of Cones best paintings in these years.  In the summers of 1932 and 1933, Marvin Cone and Grant Wood were an active force in the Stone City Art Colony, which brought together a group of regionalist painters.  Unfortunately, the Depression caused the colony to close after only two summers.  Cone was then appointed professor of painting at Coe College, where he continued to teach until 1960.

He lived all his 74 years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he married, raised a family, and for more than four decades taught art at Coe College.  Although he never achieved great fame, he was highly respected by his contemporaries.  As conventional as his life may seem, he was a passionate artist who had a rare sensitivity to his environment.

Marvin Cone sought to evoke his inner vision of nature rather than to create a realistic depiction of the rural landscape.  To Cone, nature was a vehicle for revealing certain truths.  His paintings integrated his firsthand observation of nature.  He once said, "The purpose of art is not to reproduce life, but to present an editorial, a comment on life.... The artist does not set out to imitate nature.  What would be the purpose of that?  Let the camera with its clever mechanism imitate.  Art, such as poetry, music, and painting, is simply a portion of the experience of the artist. When we actually see ideals, they become real to us. Art traces an abstraction and makes it audible or visual.  It symbolizes the whole of life. We believe in something we can see."

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www.crma.org/collection/cone/cone-r.htm


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