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Marvin Cone

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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   Publications  Book References:  24
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24 Book References for Marvin Cone
Year Author Title Pages Color
2011 Editor, Hephaestus Books Articles on Artists from Iowa Including Grant Wood, Dulah Marie Evans, Geof Darrow, Daniel Rhodes, Benjamin Edwards, Marvin Cone 76 Yes
2010 Books LLC, Editor Artists from Iowa: Albert Henry Krehbiel, Grant Wood, Dulah Marie Evans, Everett Warner, Daniel Rhodes, Dean Schwaraz, Sherry Fry 96 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Kinsey, Joni Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie
(Exhibition catalog)
256 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Czestochowski, Joseph S Marvin D Cone An American Tradition 71 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)
151 No
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1977 Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
189 No
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1972 Brown, Hazel Grant Wood and Marvin Cone Artists of an Era 150 No
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1939 Ness, Zenobia; Louise Orwig Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years 253 Yes
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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