This Iowa artist's meticulous compositions mine the haunted space between object and idea.

The Kansas City artist's strongly horizontal paintings capture the sweep of the Midwestern sky and landscape.

This painter found inspiration for her triptych in one of the Midwest's most common sights: a cornfield.

This Kansas artist abstracts prairie animals from their natural settings. The result: mysterious beauty.

Quilts aren't just for beds. Our correspondent shows us how they're warming up the rural landscape, too.

Artist Thomas Agran took an unexpected landscape for his subject: the convulsed earth of a construction site that had once been a farm.

Though best known for her urban paintings of New York and Kansas City, this artist also captures the Midwest's rural heart.

This poet turns to a pair of Iowa icons--a Grant Wood painting and the quadaennial caucuses--to evoke the quiet behind the image.

This artist has shared her visions of the prairie landscape in almost every issue of our journal. We're fortunate to feature four more.