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You might not think of the folks behind John Deere tractors as art collectors but the Midwestern company has been collecting art for decades. The company has amassed hundreds of works of art from around the world including pieces from Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall and Alexander Calder. For the first time the company is putting its collection on display. The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa recently opened a permanent gallery to display highlights from the John Deere Collection on a rotating basis. The first exhibition: Global Currents: The John Deere Art Collection runs until October 24. The company still owns the art but different pieces from the collection will cycle through the gallery several times a year on an ongoing basis.The collection started in 1965 when the late William Hewitt, then chairman of the company, started collecting to decorate the company's new Eero Saarinen-designed headquarters. Since that time the company shipped in major pieces from places where it did business.
Many of Deere's artworks represent international abstract trends but one of the most significant pieces in the collection reflects Deere's line of work. Grant Wood's 1931 painting Fall Plowing, shown at right, depicts the countryside of Iowa and in the foreground is the self-scouring steel plow invented by John Deere.
[via Des Moines Register]
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