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Grant Wood | |
| Birth Date: February 13, 1891 |
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| Death Date: February 12, 1942 Artist Gallery |
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| Grant Wood was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting rural America. He grew up on a farm in rural Iowa and moved to Cedar Rapids when he was ten years old after his father passed away. The ideas for his paintings came from the memories he had of life on the farm as a child.
Wood became the spokesman for the Regionalist art movement in the 1930's after he commented that he "got all his best ideas for painting while milking a cow." The Regionalist art movement came about during the Great Depression, when artists could not afford travel to Europe to study. Regionalism, therefore, was all about artists painting what they lived with, in, or around.
Wood is most famously known for his painting "American Gothic," which received instant fame. He died of cancer a day before his 51st birthday. |
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