Artist: Grant Wood (1892 - 1942)
Nationality: American
Movement: Regionalism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Grant Wood was born in Iowa and lived his entire life in the small town of Anamosa where he painted the landscape and the inhabitants. He traveled to France and the Netherlands in the 1920’s to study Gothic, Renaissance, Romanesque, and Flemish Art, all of which influenced his later paintings. Wood is most famous for the painting American Gothic, which depicts a stereotypical Midwest farmer and his wife standing before a Gothic window. He was the first Regionalist, a group of American artists who favored rural realism over the abstract styles that were developing in the early 1900’s.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Grant Wood, Fertility, 1939
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Grant Wood, Fruits, 1939
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Grant Wood, Vegetables, 1939
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Grant Wood, February, 1940
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Grant Wood, March, 1941
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Grant Wood, In the Spring, 1938
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Grant Wood, January, 1938
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Grant Wood, Shrine Quartet, 1938
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Grant Wood, The Perfectionist, 1936
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Grant Wood, Wild Flowers, 1938
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Grant Wood, Tame Flowers, 1939
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Grant Wood, Honorary Degree, 1938
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Grant Wood, Family Doctor, 1941
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Grant Wood, Sultry Night, 1937
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Grant Wood, December Afternoon, 1941
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Grant Wood, Approaching Storm, 1940
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Grant Wood, Midnight Alarm, 1938
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Grant Wood, July Fifteenth, 1938
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Grant Wood, Tree Planting Group, 1937
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Grant Wood, Seed Time and Harvest, 1937
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Grant Wood, Dinner for Threshers, 1934
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Thomas Nast, Grant"s Last Annual Message, 1876
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Artist: Grant Wood Title: The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa Date: 1931 Medium:
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Henry Wolf, Lee"s Surrender to General Grant, 19th - 20th century
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Grant Wood - Ph.D. n.d. oil on canvas Tufts University Art Gallery American
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Cosmo Alexander - Alexander Grant 1770 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago
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Gordon Hope Grant, Fog Over Gloucester, 1941
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Gilbert Stuart - The Skater (Portrait of Wililam Grant) 1782 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Joesph Blackburn - Abigail Chesebrough (Mrs. Alexander Grant) 1754 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Grant T. Reynard, Art Dealer"s Window, 1936
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Gordon Hope Grant, Drifting In, 1934
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Grant Wood - Self-Portrait 1932-41 Oil on Masonite Figge Art Museum American
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Grant Wood - New Road 1939 oil on canvas on pap National Gallery of Art American
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Grant Wood - Haying 1939 oil on canvas on pap National Gallery of Art American
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Grant Wood - Near Sundown 1933 oil on canvas Spencer Museum of Art American
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Gordon Hope Grant, Arching Elms, 1945
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Gordon Hope Grant, Any Lobsters Today, 1947
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Grant Wood - March 1939 lithograph on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
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Grant Wood - January 1940 oil on masonite pane Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Charles Christian Nahl, Annie Grant, 1857

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Directions: Sam Taylor-Wood
Meet the Artist Thursday, July 15, at 12 noon Sam Taylor-Wood will discuss her work. Ring Auditorium. ...
Viridian Artists: Stephen Garmey: Recent Sculptures
Although constructed of wood, not stone, more than one reviewer has said the essence and tension in Garmey's works recalls Stonehenge or the Straits of Corinth. The works are modest in size, but the artistí's mastery brings a sense of massiveness ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Wood Turning In North America Since 1930
Following WWII, interest in pure design and the influences of Scandinavia inspired the likes of Bob Stocksdale and Philip Moulthrop. Their successors have been pushing the limits of the medium ever since. The more experimental and challenging appr...
Bellevue Art Museum: Darren Waterston: Scapes and Darren Waterston/Beatrice Wood: A personal Alchemy
Darren Waterston: ScapesThis exhibition will examine Waterston’s recent work in terms of his reliance on a system of visual mapping resulting in otherworldly scapes referencing the body, architecture, and even urban design. Focusing on his mor...
Turkaly Art Gallery: John Habela: Works in Wood and Bronze
 In John's work you can see the influence of African tribal art as well as Polynesian and Polish folk design. His fanciful and often whimsical outlook on man is artistically depicted in each work, whether in a large piece of wood or an intricate d...
Hayward Gallery: Sam Taylor-Wood
In Pietà (2001), a large-scale video projection based on Michelangelo’s Vatican sculpture, the artist struggles to hold actor Robert Downey Jr. in the pose of the dying Christ. Third Party (1999), shown for the first time in Britain, is an absorbing ...
Contemporary Arts Center: Stephan Balkenhol
The CAC is exhibiting ...
Cairns Regional Gallery: Extracted: Atherton Tablelands Artist Josie Lowerson
My upbringing [in the Mallee region of North Western Victoria] is also a significant factor in my work; the environment was harsh, the climate extreme and life was hard, but there was an incredible amount of diverse creativity around me, she said....
Edinburgh Printmakers: Hilary Paynter: From the Rivers to the Sea
Inspired by the scenery of the northeast Paynter made many journeys on Tyneside’s Metro transport system. From the outset Paynter was ‘arrested by the idea of the Metro as a journey in and out of the past and the richness of historical context’, w...
Lemon Street Gallery & Artspace, Inc.: Pyrographics on Reclaimed Wood: Work by Susan Edgerton
Please allow time to view the newly installed 2nd Quarter Exhibit in the Main Gallery. On view is the works of their 25 member artists. Lemon Street Gallery & Artspace, Inc. is located at 4601 Sheridan Rd. in Kenosha, WI 53140-3323. The gal...
Museum for African Art: African Forms: Hand -Crafted Masterworks from the Entire African Continent
The exhibition celebrates the artistic practices of numerous African peoples who work in materials like gold, silver, iron, bronze, wood, ivory, ...
Detroit Institute of Art: THE FINE ART OF WOOD: THE BOHLEN COLLECTION
Explore this growing medium, where the vision of the artist and the possibilities of a single material combine to create dozens of amazing forms. Accom...
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art: The Well: Works by Polly Gould, Claudia Kappenberg, Uriel Orlow, Mark Osterfield, Judy Price, Kay Walsh, Jo Wood
Relationship and loss are at the heart of this exhibition. Loss creates an absence, a void, a well to be filled; it has the capacity to transform the people who are left behind. Indeed, loss can become a generator of new relationships and connecti...
Lonsdale Gallery: Cambium: Allen Hirsh's Original Wood Constructions
“I’m inspired by borders and boundaries and what happens when you cross that edge,” says Toronto-based Hirsh. “When you get below the surface or go to unfamiliar places, your senses are heightened, and you may be more enthusiastic or cautious and...
Wood Street Gallery: Naked: The Naked Body in Contemporary Video, Photography, and Preformance
Naked features the work of Tina Barney, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Jaan Toomik, Spencer Tunick, Bruce Weber and Manabu Yamanaka. Wood Street Galleries will also present a lecture with Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor of Art, Art i...
Everson Art Museum: Louise Nevelson's Facade: An Homage to Edith Sitwell
Her Façade suite of 1967 is comprised of twelve prints that involve photography, silkscreen, and collage on paper and acetate sheets. The series was created in homage to Dame Edith Sitwell, the ...
Columbia Museum of Art: Winslow Homer: The Civil War Years and Winslow Homer: The Gloucester Years (Focus Gallery 3)
Newspaper illustrations at the time were using an improved method of woodblock reproduction know as wood engraving. Using the end grain of boxwood, the illustrator could draw finer line...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Winslow Homer: Illustrating America
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Art Gallery of Mississauga: Ryszard Litwiniuk: Structures
The transformation that Litwiniuk refers to is exemplified in the dynamic wooden structures he creates from blocks or stumps of wood. He has breathed new life into the wood by cutting the centre free from it's natural restraints and allowing it to...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Emilie Brzezinksi: New Directions
Brzezinski's art takes on both metaphoric (the tree as life experience) and anthropomorphic (the tree as human) meanings. The emergence of a form within the wood is a natural, and at times arduous, process for her. "Emilie Brzezinski: New Directio...
Gallery 32: Giacomo Picca: Trees for the Wood
In ‘Trees for the Wood’ Giacomo Picca uses the "tree" as a mediator of personal experiences and a shared sign operating in different cultural spaces. Working with the subject of wood as both the material of the work and the pictorial protagonist, ...
Unisa Art Gallery: Tribute to Lucky Sibiya
Lucky Sibiya is internationally renowned for his abstract paintings and sculptural carvings. Sibiya's works have been exhibited, and collected locally and globally. His richly carved flowing rhythmic lines and painted wood panels are perha...
Ellipse Arts Center: Way Off the Rack: Costume as Sculpture
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Aron Packer Gallery: Michael Ferris Jr. - The Artist’s Studio (Revisited)
Ferris’ references to himself are more apparent in his paintings and drawings, which take a more traditional Western approach to art. Heavily narrative, Ferris’ paintings depict the artist’s alter ego yet again, as an old man whose primary compan...
David Rago Auction Center: CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR 2ND ANNUAL WORKS IN WOOD SHOW
Jurors for this year's exhibition include: Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, vice-president and Design Director of the internationally renowned Nakashima Studios, who has exhibited her work in fine galleries and museums around the world. She has designed a...
Loveland Sculpture Invitational: Twelfth Annual Exhibition to Open Today
Denny McNeill, a well-known local artist from Elbert, Colorado, is scheduled to participate in this largest outdoor sculpture show . McNeill’s sculpture styles range from realistic to abstract and is primarily known for his sculpturing in wood. A...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: Ignacio Basallo: Transformations
The way he works has changed little over the years. A quarter of a century ago, he resorted to wood and played with the ambiguous images conjured up in the rural environment, but he used them giving value to their formal language, the interplay w...
Wood Turning Center: allTURNatives: Form & Spirit Exhibition
The 2003 ITE Resident Fellows are: Eli Avisera, Lathe Artist, Israel
Kevin Burrus, Lathe Artist, USA
Mark Hancock, Lathe Artist, Wales
Ron Kanter, Photojournalist, USA
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, Scholar, USA
Thier...
Carnegie Museum of Art: On Paper II: 50 Works from the Collection
Three early Philip Pearlstein drawings depict the daily life of American GIs during World War II and illustrate drawing's time-honored role in ...
Oakland Museum of California: Meadowsweet Dairy: Wood Sculpture
The group (or, as they prefer to be called, the artist) Meadowsweet Dairy, named after the former dairy in Corte Madera that since 1991 has housed the artists‚ studio and exhibition space, began as the brainchild of Henry Corning and Sam Bower. Th...

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Cedar Rapids Museum of Art - Grant Wood
GRANT WOOD/BIOGRAPHY
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Midwest Today: Grant Wood
Welcome to Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Introduction, Grant Wood
The Grant Wood Art Festival
Going Back to Iowa: The World of Grant Wood
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