Grant Wood

A pioneer of American Regionalism, Grant Wood was a figurative painter best known for his perceptive interpretations of life in rural and small town America. Though he created only a small number of editioned prints during his career, Wood was a masterful draftsman, whose refined drawings were effectively translated through the medium of lithography. In this image of an idealized Iowa farmstead, Wood presents a romanticized portrayal of the American farmer, independent and self-assured, as he surveys his rural domain with pride.

In the Spring https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59576/

Approaching Storm

Approaching Storm https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/approaching-storm-1940

Dinner for Threshers

Dinner for Threshers https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/dinner-for-threshers-1934

Haying

Haying https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/haying-1939

February

February https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/february-1940

Arbor Day

Arbor Day https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/arbor-day-1932

Portrait of Nan

Portrait of Nan https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/portrait-of-nan-1933

Study for Agricultural Science Mural.1934.

Study for Agricultural Science Mural.1934. https://whitney.org/exhibitions/grant-wood#exhibition-artworks

Old shoes

Old shoes https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/old-shoes-1926

Regenstein Acquisition Fund and Regenstein Foundation

January https://www.artic.edu/artworks/228478/

Stone City, Iowa https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/stone-city-iowa-1930

Boy Milking a Cow https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/iowa-s-product-1932

Farmer's Wife with Chickens https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/iowa-s-product-1932-2

Gift of Bryan S. Reid, Jr.

Midnight Alarm https://www.artic.edu/artworks/99592/

House with Blue Pole https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/the-rods-of-house-1924

round body continuous through flared foot; ivory insulators at handle and pineapple shaped ivory finial, replaced during life of tea pot, on hinged cover; unadorned; hand wrought In 1914, the American regionalist painter Grant Wood and Kristopher Haga, a Norwegian silversmith, both students at the Kalo metalware shops in Chicago formed the Volund Craft Shops in Park Ridge, Illinois. The enterprise, named for the Norwegian god of silversmithing, only lasted eighteen months due to insufficient funds. The shops produced small gold and silver items such as jewelry, boxes, and buckles. Hollow ware forms such as this coffee and tea set were rare for the shop and it is among the most ambitious productions ever undertaken by Wood and Haga.

Tea Pot, from a Coffee and Tea Service https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8353/

Summer (Four Seasons Lunettes). 1923.

Summer (Four Seasons Lunettes). 1923. https://whitney.org/exhibitions/grant-wood#exhibition-artworks

Calendulas. 1928-1929.

Calendulas. 1928-1929. https://www.crma.org/collections/permanent-collections/Grant-Wood

rounded body continuous through flared foot; double handle; unadorned; handwrought In 1914, the American regionalist painter Grant Wood and Kristopher Haga, a Norwegian silversmith, both students at the Kalo metalware shops in Chicago formed the Volund Craft Shops in Park Ridge, Illinois. The enterprise, named for the Norwegian god of silversmithing, only lasted eighteen months due to insufficient funds. The shops produced small gold and silver items such as jewelry, boxes, and buckles. Hollow ware forms such as this coffee and tea set were rare for the shop and it is among the most ambitious productions ever undertaken by Wood and Haga.

Sugar Bowl, from a Coffee and Tea Service https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8354/

Autumn Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/the-landscape-of-autumn-1919

Mr. and Mrs. Carter Manny Jr. gift in honor of Ada Barnes Manny & Sara Sherman Wood

The Pump https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100900/

Detail from Iowa Corn Room Mural, 1925.

Plowing https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/break-ground-1936

January

January https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/january-1940

Gift of David Q. and Mary H. Bell

Sultry Night https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229767/

Near Sundown

Near Sundown https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/near-the-sunset

This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood. The impetus for the painting came while Wood was visiting the small town of Eldon in his native Iowa. There he spotted a little wood farmhouse, with a single oversized window, made in a style called Carpenter Gothic. “I imagined American Gothic people with their faces stretched out long to go with this American Gothic house,” he said. He used his sister and his dentist as models for a farmer and his daughter, dressing them as if they were “tintypes from my old family album.” The highly detailed, polished style and the rigid frontality of the two figures were inspired by Flemish Renaissance art, which Wood studied during his travels to Europe between 1920 and 1928. After returning to settle in Iowa, he became increasingly appreciative of midwestern traditions and culture, which he celebrated in works such as this. American Gothic, often understood as a satirical comment on the midwestern character, quickly became one of America’s most famous paintings and is now firmly entrenched in the nation’s popular culture. Yet Wood intended it to be a positive statement about rural American values, an image of reassurance at a time of great dislocation and disillusionment. The man and woman, in their solid and well-crafted world, with all their strengths and weaknesses, represent survivors. Friends of American Art Collection

American Gothic https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6565/

Adolescence https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/puberty-1940

Honorary Degree

Honorary Degree https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/honorary-degree-1938

Death on the Ridge Road

Death on the Ridge Road https://www.wikiart.org/en/grant-wood/death-on-the-ridge-road-1935