After graduating from Washington High School in 1910, Wood enrolled in the Handicraft Guild, a fully women-run arts school in Minneapolis (now a major collective of artists in the city) between 1930 and 1934 Wood wrote many of the works for which he is best known: Arnold Coming of Age (1930), Victorian Survival (1931) and Appreciation (1931), Daughters of the Revolution (1932), Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride (1931) and Cena for the thresher (1934).
In 1930, an unknown American artist named Grant Wood decided to submit one of his paintings to the annual jury exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. He didn’t know, but this bronze medal marked the beginning of one of the most incredible stories in art history.
Woods’s award-winning painting titled American Gothic depicting a hardened farm child soon became the masterpiece of a new American art movement called Regionalism, originally invented and then promoted by a Kansas impresario and art dealer named Maynard Walker. The popularity of the painting, coupled with frequent complaints about the unfair stereotype of Midwesterners, made Wood a national figure. Associated American Artists has sold Woods’ work over the years in New York.
Grant Woods’American Gothic, a double portrait of a farmer with a pitchfork and a woman commonly considered to be his wife, is perhaps the most recognizable painting in American art of the 20th century, an irreplaceable icon of America and certainly Woods’ most famous work. Art. Depicting a farmer (who was modeled after Woods’s ‘dentist ‘)
He shaved off his Parisian beard, returned to jumpsuit and changed his artistic style although the inspiration for his new style was also European and was born from a 1928 trip to Munich to oversee the construction of the exterior glass windows he designed for Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Building. R. Tripp Evans, his most recent biographer, suggests that he was recently inspired by the works of Flemish and German artists of the 16th century and also disappointed by what the artist called the “Bohemian”
Wood was a 20th-century American painter with an iconic example of America’s scenery and people, along with Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 — 1915) and John Stuart Curry (American, 1897 — 1946), who was known for his paintings of the rural areas of the American Midwest, especially American Gothic (1930). He was born in Iowa countryside,
Grant DeWolson Wood was born on February 13th, 1891 in Hattie Weaver and Francis Maryville Wood and grew up on a farm in a small town in Iowa. His vibrant oil paintings depicting affluent farms and local communities contrasted with his vision of despair during the Great Depression at the time they were painted.
The Whitney exhibit of the Grant Wood Art Colony celebrates the life and legacy of Iowa’s most famous artist, Grant Wood (born February 13th, 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa, USA — died February 12th, 1942 in Iowa City, Iowa). Grant Wood (born February 13th, 1891 near Anamosa, Iowa, USA — died February 12th, 1942 in Iowa City, Iowa) was an American artist who was one of the leading exponents of Midwestern regionalism, a movement that flourishe
