Artist
Grant Wood
born Anamosa, IA 1891-died Iowa City, IA 1942
- Also known as
- Grant DeVolson Wood
- Born
- Anamosa, Iowa, United States
- Active in
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
- Biography
Painter. A practitioner of American scene painting, Wood painted views of the Midwest in a realistic style mixed with satire. His most famous work, American Gothic, is an American icon.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
Exhibitions
June 18, 2009–January 10, 2010
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the second in a series of special installations, celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper.