Supreme Court says Coe College can’t sell Grant Wood paintings

November 8, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

The paintings were part of a large mural known as “The Fruits of Iowa” commissioned in 1932 by businessman Eugene Eppley to hang in the Hotel Montrose in Cedar Rapids. The Eppley Foundation donated the paintings to Coe College in 1976 with a letter saying they should hang in the college’s Stewart Memorial Library along […]