10 Facts About Marvin Cone

Marvin Dorwart Cone was an American painter in the regionalist style.

Marvin Cone was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and lived there most of his life.

Marvin Cone attended college and traveled to Paris with his contemporary and high-school friend, Grant Wood.

Marvin Cone was a professor at Coe College for more than forty years.

Marvin Cone graduated from Coe College in 1914 and then studied for several years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Marvin Cone enlisted in the Iowa National's Guard's 34th Infantry Division in 1917, during which time he won a training camp design competition with a "Red Bull" insignia, which the now multi-state unit wears to this day.

Marvin Cone left for France in 1917, where he served for several years as an interpreter.

Marvin Cone returned to Paris with his wife Winnifred in 1929 and traveled to Mexico in 1939.

Marvin Cone lived all his 74 years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he married, raised a family, and for more than four decades taught art at Coe College.

Marvin Cone sought to evoke his inner vision of nature rather than to create a realistic depiction of the rural landscape.