Grant Wood
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Grant DeVolson Wood was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic, whic
Self-portrait, 1932
Grant Wood's boyhood home, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa.
The 2004 Iowa state quarter honors Grant Wood with elements including the Schoolhouse, teacher and students planting a tree, and the caption "Foundation in Education".
Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930), Art Institute of Chicago
Nan Wood Graham
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Nan Wood Graham was an American artist and art teacher. She was the sister of painter Grant Wood. She is best known as the model for the woman in her brother's most famous painting, American Gothic.
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…pancreatic cancer, one day before his 51st birthday. Wood is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Anamosa, Iowa. When Wood died, his estate went to his sister, Nan Wood Graham, the woman portrayed in American Gothic. When she died in 1990, her estate, along with Wood's personal effects and various works of art, became the…
Nan Wood Graham in 1977
Portrait of Nan, by Grant Wood, 1933