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NEW YORK – The upcoming Grant Wood retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art will reassess the career of an artist whose most famous work, American Gothic—one of the most indelible emblems of Americana and perhaps the best-known work of 20-century American art—will be making a rare voyage from the Art Institute of Chicago […]

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – A rare Grant Wood sketchbook from 1929 is back in Davenport after it went missing from a museum about 50 years ago, the museum said. The 100-page sketchbook signed by Wood, the painter of American Gothic, is again in the Figge Art Museum’s possession, said collections and exhibitions manager Andrew Wallace. […]

CHICAGO – Grant Wood’s artworks have always held a special place in the hearts of Midwesterners—they capture the land and the people Wood knew best, hardworking men and women of 20th century rural America. We see his visions as a memorial to the American working class and generations of collectors have established a strong market […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – After American Gothic artist Grant Wood joined the University of Iowa faculty, he moved into an old Iowa City house in 1935. He completed an array of artwork in the home and a barn he turned into a studio before his death seven years later. And he surrounded himself with […]