Paintings
Paintings
This Iowa artist's meticulous compositions mine the haunted space between object and idea.
Paintings
The Kansas City artist's strongly horizontal paintings capture the sweep of the Midwestern sky and landscape.
Paintings
This painter found inspiration for her triptych in one of the Midwest's most common sights: a cornfield.
Paintings
This Kansas artist abstracts prairie animals from their natural settings. The result: mysterious beauty.
Feature
Quilts aren't just for beds. Our correspondent shows us how they're warming up the rural landscape, too.
Closeup
Artist Thomas Agran took an unexpected landscape for his subject: the convulsed earth of a construction site that had once been a farm.
Paintings
Though best known for her urban paintings of New York and Kansas City, this artist also captures the Midwest's rural heart.
Closeup
Two artists, born decades apart and working in entirely different mediums, found common ground in prairie wildflowers.
Poetry
This poet turns to a pair of Iowa icons--a Grant Wood painting and the quadaennial caucuses--to evoke the quiet behind the image.
Paintings
This artist has shared her visions of the prairie landscape in almost every issue of our journal. We're fortunate to feature four more.