Grant Wood

Grant Wood was one of the noted triumvirates of American Regionalist painters who first attained prominence during the years of the Great Depression. Wood, like the other two members, Thomas Hart Benton and John Stewart Curry, was born in the Midwest, and both his art and his personal philosophy reflected the values and traditions of this area, whose way of life, in the eyes of many, appeared to be seriously threatened by the industrial and technological advancements of the early Twentieth century. Wood voiced his philosophy in an essay titled Revolt Against the City, written and published in 1935. Although best known for such engaging paintings as American Gothic (1930, The Art Institute of Chicago), Daughters of Revolution (1932, Cincinnati Art Museum), and Parson Weem's Fable (1939, Happy Y and John B. Turner, 11 Collection), some of Wood's most significant and technically accomplished works are a series of lithographs commissioned by the Associated American Artists in New York toward the end of the 1930s.

Grant Wood Images:
American Gothic
American Gothic,1930
Spring in Town