Scholars and artists from across North America will gather April 25–26 at the University of Iowa for the eighth biennial ...

Grant Wood’s inspiration, which he chanced to see when he was being driven around by a local artist in the summer of 1930, is on a slight rise above the town. What drew Wood was the upstairs ...

A Cedar Rapids artist even saw their possibility for a good still life picture, which you see reproduced on this page. "And incidentally, we might tell you the story of how Grant Wood came to ...

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 ...

The book cover send-up of Grant Wood’s 1930 painting “American Gothic” portends an on-campus dose of the surreal, as viewed ...

LeClaire Community Library has received funding from Humanities Iowa, a private non-profit, to host a presentation called “Grant Wood: Artistic Rags to Riches – an American Success Story” by Randy ...

A guide to key strands in early 20th-century American painting, from industrial landscapes and rural vistas to Paris and abstraction. Featuring works offered in Modern American Art on 17 April 2025.