Grant Wood created one of ... "He felt that everyday scenes from Iowa were just as important as the kinds of things that were being taught in the major art schools," said Sean Ulmer, director ...

This year’s theme explores questions of who is representing and who is represented in the American Scene, using the work of Grant Wood and other artists to examine broader issues of identity ...

Learn the impact of Grant ... the artist recruited his sister and a local dentist to model as farmers in the painting's foreground. A pitch fork propped between them completes the scene.

Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant ... Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S ...

The Grant Wood Rest Area, on northbound Interstate 380 south of Cedar Rapids, is the Iowa Department of Transportation's tribute to regionalist painter Grant Wood, replacing a decades-old visitor ...

An icon of Americana is coming to New York for the first time in nearly 20 years: Grant ... scenes of rural America for which Wood is best known to include early Impressionist works, decorative ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Three little-known Grant Wood paintings depicting scenes from Des Moines in the 1920s have been given to the Des Moines Art Center. Their authenticity and value are being ...

Art scholars say that it was pretty much an open secret that Iowa’s most famous artist, Grant Wood (1891-1942), was gay. Davenport’s Figge Art Museum will welcome one of those scholars ...