Grant wood

Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the early years of 20th Century. Following a period of trips to Europe and an interest for impressionist and post-impressionist styles, he discovered the...

Grant Wood 1941 photo: Figge Art Museum, Davenport, 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. The family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa after the death of his father in 1901. After graduating from High School, Wood enrolled in an art school in Minneapolis in 1910. In 1913 he enrolled at the School of the Art…

Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the early years of 20th Century. Following a period of trips to Europe and an interest for impressionist and post-impressionist styles, he discovered the...

‘January’ was created in 1940 by Grant Wood in Regionalism style. Find more prominent pieces of landscape at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Now on view at the Whitney, the retrospective reveals a much darker side to the painter of America's heartland.

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 (1891–1942), Plaid Sweater, 1931. Oil on composition board, 29 1⁄2 x 24 1⁄8 in. (74.9 x 61.3 cm). University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

Peter Schjeldahl on the Whitney’s retrospective of Grant Wood, the mid-century Iowan painter who made occasionally impressive, predominantly weird, sometimes awful art.

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