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Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art .
American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker.Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement.
Critics have commented on the juxtaposition of these women and the mythic painting of George Washington portrayed in one of his wartime feats. Based on Tripp Evans' biography Grant Wood, A Life (2010), Henry Adams in his review says that Wood's painting Daughters of Revolution depicts not women but men: the Founding Fathers as cross-dressing figures, who stand in front of a recreation of ...
Artists of the Stone City Art Colony, 1932 An artist at his easel, 1932 The Stone City Art Colony was an art colony founded by Edward Rowan, Adrian Dornbush, and Grant Wood . The colony gathered on the John A. Green Estate in Stone City, Iowa during the summers of 1932 and 1933.
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1942, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer .
Artist: Gordon Parks: Year: 1942 (83 years ago) () [1] Medium: ... American Gothic (1930), by Grant Wood. Ella Watson, with an adopted daughter and three of her ...
Its most important association is regionalist artist Grant Wood, who lived here from 1936 and until his death in 1942. [2] He restored the house during his ownership. The paintings he completed here include: Portrait of Nan (1938), Haying (1939), New Road (1939), Parson Weems' Fable–Washington Cherry Tree (1939) and Adolescence (1940).