DAVENPORT— A rare Grant Wood sketchbook from 1929 is back in Davenport after it went missing from a museum about 50 years ago, the museum said.
The 100-page sketchbook signed by Wood, the painter of “American Gothic,” is again in the Figge Art Museum’s possession, collections and exhibitions manager Andrew Wallace said Thursday. The small book of drawings for the 24-foot, stained-glass window in Cedar Rapid’s Veterans Memorial Building was likely stolen during an open house in 1966.