A rare sketchbook by US artist Grant Wood dating from 1929 is back in its home art gallery in Davenport, Iowa, after it went missing from a museum about 50 years ago.

The 100-page sketchbook signed by Wood, the painter of American Gothic, is again in the Figge Art Museum's possession, collections and exhibitions manager Andrew Wallace said.

The small book of drawings for the 24ft stained-glass window in Cedar Rapid's Veterans Memorial Building is likely to have been stolen during an open house in 1966 at what was then the Davenport Museum of Art.

The museum did not say whether or not it paid to have the book returned.

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