 The Real Grant Wood
He became an instant celebrity with
American Gothic, but understanding of
Wood’s art has been slow in coming.
By Henry Adams
The story of Grant Wood is surely one of the strangest episodes in the entire history of American art. As of 1930 he was a little-known local painter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Then he made a painting of his sister and his dentist dressed up as farm folk, standing in front of a little wooden cottage with a gothic window and suddenly Wood was a national and international celebrity. READ MORE 
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