Marvin Cone

Marvin Dorwart Cone (October 21, 1891 – May 18, 1965) was an American painter in the regionalist style.

Cone was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and lived there most of his life. He graduated from Washington High School in 1910. Cone attended speculative and traveled to Paris bearing in mind his contemporary and high-school friend, Grant Wood. After his compensation to the United States, Cone helped to found the Stone City Art Colony. He was a professor at Coe College for higher than forty years. Most of his paintings can now be seen at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Some of his sketches can then been found in the unshakable collection of the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art in Cedar Falls. "Untitled (Interior)," a painted scene of doors in an interior, can be seen at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

In 1906 he began a lifelong friendship in imitation of Grant Wood. He graduated from Coe College in 1914 and subsequently studied for several years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He enlisted in the Iowa National's Guard's 34th Infantry Division in 1917, during which grow old he won a training camp design competition later a "Red Bull" insignia, which the now multi-state unit wears to this day. He left for France in 1917, where he served for several years as an interpreter.

In 1919, he studied for nearly five months at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpellier, France. When he returned to Cedar Rapids that year, he continued to pursue his concentration in art. He considered advertisement art, but chose then again to take a tilt teaching French at Coe College for the 1919–1920 academic year. Upon his reward to Cedar Rapids, Cone speedily renewed his friendship past Grant Wood and resumed his swift involvement similar to the local art association (now the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art). Cone and Wood went abroad in the summer of 1920, hoping to enlarge their mysterious skills. The visit proved influential, resulting in a stunning series of impressionistic views of picturesque cityscapes and landscapes, Paris streets and gardens, and the French countryside. Architecture and landscape fascinated Cone for the get off of his life. He returned to Paris behind his wife Winnifred in 1929 and traveled to Mexico in 1939. Cone lived everything his 74 years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he married, raised a family, and for over four decades taught art at Coe College. Although he never achieved great fame, he was terribly respected by his contemporaries.

Marvin Cone sought to evoke his inner vision of natural world rather than to Make a feasible depiction of the rural landscape. To Cone, nature was a vehicle for revealing distinct truths. His paintings integrated his firsthand observation of nature. He afterward said, "The intention of art is not to reproduce life, but to gift an editorial, a comment on life.... The performer does not set out to upset nature. What would be the direct of that? Let the camera as soon as its clever mechanism imitate. Art, such as poetry, music, and painting, is usefully a share of the experience of the artist. When we actually look ideals, they become real to us. Art traces an elimination and makes it audible or visual. It symbolizes the amassed of life. We put going on with in something we can see.”