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Grant Wood (1892-1942) Lithograph on Paper, 1939 Pencil signed by the artist 9 h x 11 w Sold |
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| Grant Wood, a leading Regionalist painter, was born and lived his entire life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Although he visited Europe a number of times and studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, he was primarily a self-taught artist. After dabbling in impressionism, Wood rejected modern abstraction and turned to his straightforward depictions of everyday life in the Midwest. His best-known work, American Gothic (1930), won a bronze medal at an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the decades since, however, the work has become one of the most enduring images in American art. He supervised Federal Art Projects in Iowa and was assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Iowa. | |||||
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