Grant wood

The first New York retrospective in 35 years of this Regional painter has ups, downs, detours and lots to see and think about.

Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables | Whitney Museum of American Art

Grant Wood is best known for paintings of rural America in a style known as Regionalism. He died the day before his 51st birthday of pancreatic cancer. This is his story.

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The denim-clad artist who painted American Gothic wasn’t the hayseed he’d have you believe

"Horses" Grant Wood

Grant Wood, "The Good Influence" (1936). Black carbon pencil, India ink, and white gouache on tan wove paper, composition: 20 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. (52.07 x 41.275 cm.). Collections Fund (1952.6.2). © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. In 1930 Grant Wood painted his most famous work, the double portrait, American Gothic," and instantly gained national recognition as a leader of the regionalist school. Trained as a…

Hailed as one of America's foremost Regionalist painters, he is the creator of the iconic and enigmatic painting: American Gothic.

‘Adolescence’ was created in 1933 by Grant Wood in Regionalism style. Find more prominent pieces of animal painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood at the Stone City Art Colony 1933 photo by John Barry Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa Grant DeVolson Wood (1891 – 1942) was born in 1891 near Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. His 1930 painting “American Gothic” has become an iconic image of C20th art. This is part 2 of a 2 – part post on the works of Grant Wood. For full biographical notes, and for earlier works, see part 1 also. 1932 Spring Plowing (…