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Grant Wood
Grant DeVolson Wood 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.
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culture · American painter (1891–1942) · painter · art educator · university teacher · printmaker · draftsperson · illustrator · also Grant Wood, Grant DeVolson Wood, Wood, Grant Devolson Wood
Born 13 February 1891 · Died 12 February 1942 · Q217434
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2009· 1 entry
Grant was awarded the Iowa Prize, the state's highest citizen honor
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1990· 1 entry
Her estate, along with Wood's personal effects and various works of art, became the property of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa
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1978· 1 entry
And was featured in the 2016 documentary, 1142: Beyond the Bricks
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1942· 2 entries
Died 1942-02-12.
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Wood died at Iowa City University Hospital of pancreatic cancer, one day before his 51st birthday
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1940· 1 entry
Wood and eight other prominent American artists were hired to document and interpret dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film The Long Voyage Home, a cinematic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays
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1934· 2 entries
The University of Iowa offered Wood a three-year-term as an Associate Professor of Fine Art
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Wood was offered a position working and teaching in Iowa City as Director of a New Deal Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)
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1932· 1 entry
Wood helped found the Stone City Art Colony near his hometown to help artists get through the Great Depression
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1930· 1 entry
At the Art Institute of Chicago, where it is still located
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1913· 1 entry
Wood enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied from 1913 to 1916
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1891· 2 entries
The son of Hattie DeEtte Wood (née Weaver) and Francis Maryville Wood
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Born 1891-02-13.
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