Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of Native American art, and wher
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum and The Unfinished Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is his most celebrated and famous work.
John White, Roanoke Indians, 1585, watercolor, British Museum
John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (event 1776, painted 1819), United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, (original version), 1778, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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
Visual art of the United States
…from the School of Paris. Instead they chose to adopt various—in some cases academic—styles of realism in depicting American urban and rural scenes. Grant Wood, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois, and Charles Sheeler exemplify the realist tendency in different ways. Sheeler and the modernists Charles Demuth and…
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