Before “American Gothic” and his other paintings, artist Grant Wood left his mark at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wood, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, designed a 24-foot ...

Her second book, "Grant Wood: The Creation of An Artist," is about Wood's early life, based on his unpublished memoir. "I ...

Controversy attended Grant Wood’s iconic and enigmatic painting “American Gothic” from its first public viewing, a juried exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. The depiction of ...

The new biography "Grant Wood: A Life" will surely provoke much discussion -- of its subject, and his art. It joins the trend in American art scholarship that focuses on long-suppressed or ignored ...

In his absorbing and thoughtful new biography, “Grant Wood: A Life,” R. Tripp Evans, a professor of art history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, dismisses the artist’s folksy ...

Unlike the daily newspaper, Wood’s art didn’t traffic in the lurid or sensational. His way was to work quietly, with guile and stealth. The dread may have been indefinable, but it is always there.

Frankwicz says in her complaint that Dennis developed a relationship with her family when he interviewed them for his book, "Grant Wood, A Study in American Art and Culture," which he published in ...

Grant Wood’s painting "American Gothic" has filled me with both pride and unease since I was a kid. I want to be a fan of Wood because he is Iowa’s most famous painter, because his family and ...

The Grant Wood Art Colony (GWAC) of Iowa City has high hopes that the eventual opening of an 89-year-old University of Iowa cornerstone/time capsule at its original Art Building will have better ...

Grant Wood is the artist of the famous piece of artwork, "American Gothic." The piece has been displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago since its completion.

On June 2, 2010, Sean Ulmer, then-curator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, points to deterioration in panel No. 58 of Grant Wood's 1928 sketch for the 24-foot tall stained glass window at ...

Sometime in the late 1930s, Grant Wood confided to his sister that he had a double. Mistaken for the artist by Wood's lifelong friends and even his Aunt Jeanette, this shadowy figure had appeared ...