Lauren Kroiz is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle.

• List of Illustrations • ixPreface • xiiiAcknowledgments • xvIntroduction • 1PART 1: IOWA1. Art in the University • 192. Stone City • 243. How to Teach Art • 534. Grant Wood, H. W. Janson, and the Case of the Naked Chicken • 74PART 2: MISSOURI5. Art and the Museum • 936. Opening the Nelson Gallery • 1027. Building a Regionalist Movement with Thomas Hart Benton • 1158. Creative Appreciation and Museum Minds • 138PART 3: WISCONSIN9. Art and Sociology • 16110. John Steuart Curry’s Amateurism • 16611. Inventing the Artist-in-Residence • 18212. Encouraging Rural Art • 202Conclusion • 223Notes • 231Bibliography • 275

"...a long overdue reevaluation of the American Regionalist triumvirate of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry. Featuring a mix of lush color reproductions, black-and-white documentary photographs, and preliminary sketches, and drawing on a wealth of primary sources. . . .Cultivating Citizens offers readers a compelling reexamination of the controversies surrounding the art and professional lives of these formidable personalities."