GRONINGEN.- From 19 November 2011 to 9 April 2012, the Groninger Museum displays an overview of the oeuvre of Jan Altink under the title Iconen van het Groningerland (Icons of the Groningen Countryside). This retrospective exhibition in the Ploeg Pavilion presents around seventy paintings and forty works on paper. The work from the collection of the Groninger Museum and of De Ploeg foundation has been supplemented by loans from private collections and public institutions. The emphasis lies on Altinks paintings and prints from the 1920s and 30s. Jan Altink, born and raised in Groningen, completed his education at Minerva Academy of Art in Groningen. In 1918 he was one of the founders of the De Ploeg artists association. He was even the name-giver of the artists group: in his view, art life in Groningen should be drastically overturned (ploeg in Dutch means both plough and