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This year, the Grant Wood Art Colony Symposium is inspired by the "It's a fine thing," exhibit at the Stanley Museum. The exhibit explores the Black Midwestern experience. University of Iowa ...

Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, ...

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa / City of Davenport Art Collection / Grant Wood Archive I explore the house a bit, and in the small gift shop buy a white hand-crocheted doily that depicts the ...

Grant Wood (1891-1942) was an American painter ... Wood helped found the Stone City Art Colony near his hometown to help artists get through the Great Depression. He became a great proponent of the ...

Cincinnati Art Museum / The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial Countless parodies have propelled Grant Wood’s American Gothic into pop iconography, yet the artist, far from a one-hit wonder ...

Highlights include Jacob Lawrence's "The Wedding," Georgia O'Keeffe's "Sky above Clouds IV" and Grant Wood's "American Gothic." The Art Institute's exhibits also include all sorts of intriguing ...