Stone City, Iowa is a 1930 painting by the American artist Grant Wood.
It is a study of a real place with which Wood was thoroughly familiar, but the landscape has been given fantastical curvy shapes, the trees are ornamental, and the bright surfaces are artificially patterned.
When the painting was made, the town was in rapid decline due to the development of Portland cement.
During the summers of 1932 and 1933, the town became the host of the Stone City Art Colony, which Wood was part of.
[2] Stone City, Iowa was made the same year as Wood's American Gothic and both paintings were successes for the artist.