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.
Nan Wood Graham in 1977
Portrait of Nan, by Grant Wood, 1933
American Gothic
The Gazette is an online newspaper that is published three times a week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The newspaper is distributed throughout northeastern and east-central Iowa, including the Cedar Rapids an
Nan Wood Graham
…investor Edward Graham in 1924. Her own artwork included sewing, making collages out of tissues, and painting glass. In 1938, Graham was featured in a Cedar Rapids Gazette story about her designs and painted glass. She exhibited her artwork in Iowa art salons and New York. The animal pictures that she painted and showed…
The July 27, 2005, front page of The Gazette