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	Wood (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wood, a natural material is produced by the growth of plants, mainly trees and shrubs.
		Wood, Wisconsin, a town in Wisconsin in the county of the same name.
		Wood (Wode, Woode or Wad), a surname believed to have originated in Scotland from the surname de Bosco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wood_(disambiguation) (283 words)

	Grant Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa.
		Wood Graham, a personality far removed from the dingy repression she embodies in the picture, claimed that the fame it brought her saved her 'from life as the world's worst stenographer'.
		Wood founded the Stone City art colony in 1933, near his hometown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grant_Wood (267 words)

	About Grant Wood Elementary School
		Grant Wood Elementary School is located in Bettendorf, Iowa serving primarily students in grades K-5 living in the second ward, first and second precincts and the fourth ward, second precinct in Bettendorf.
		Grant Wood School was conceived in 1960 as a seven classroom school with an office suite, boys and girls locker, shower and bathrooms.
		The school is named after Grant Wood, the Iowa artist known for his Regionalism style of art and his most popular oil painting, American Gothic, depicting the farmer and his daughter in front of an American farmhouse.
	www.bettendorf.k12.ia.us:8080 /wood/about.html (371 words)

	American Gothic by Grant Wood,1930 + Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wood was accused of creating in this work a satire on the intolerance and rigidity that the insular nature of rural life can produce; he denied the accusation.
		Grant Wood came to Eldon in the late 1920's with fellow artist and Eldon native, John Sharp.
		Iowa native Grant Wood is best known for his folksy depictions of mid-western farm life, such as American Gothic (1930;Art Institute of Chicago), his famous depiction of his sister Nan and his dentist posing as a farmer and his spinster daughter.
	k4a4.com /american-gothic.htm (539 words)

	Grant Wood
		Immortalized as a leader in American art and regionalism, Grant Wood was born on a small farm outside Anamosa, Iowa in 1891, the second of four children.
		In 1917, Grant returned from Chicago to find that he had been exempted from the draft; he waived his exemption, was briefly stationed at Des Moines’ Camp Dodge, and was later assigned to designing Army artillery camouflage in Washington, D.C. With the 1918 Armistice, Wood returned to Iowa without having seen any formal military action.
		Wood was honored with a Doctor of Letters from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Arts from Wesleyan University, a Doctor of Fine Arts from Northwestern University, and a Doctor of Fine Arts at Lawrence College (Appleton, WI).
	www.mtmercy.edu /stone/wood.htm (1144 words)

	Murals Designed by Grant Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The murals in the Grant Wood Heritage Area and on the walls of the staircase leading to the Upper Lobby of the original building are without doubt the major artistic feature of the Iowa State University Library.
		Wood's farmscapes of this period depict a 'streamlined rural paradise' devoid of sweating hands, market risks, foreclosed mortgages, and the effects of bad weather, crop pests and disease.
		Grant Wood, together with Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri and John Steuart Curry of Kansas, formed an important American art movement known as regionalism, which held that painters should paint those things they know best rather than rely on European influences.
	www.lib.iastate.edu /art/gwood.html (586 words)

	Grant Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant Wood was the quiet philosopher-artist of the Regionalist triumvirate, along with Missourian Thomas Hart Benton and Kansan John Steuart Curry.
		An ardent promoter of humble, hometown values, Wood was born to Quaker parents on a small farm near Anamosa, Iowa; this experience would be the basis of his iconic images of small-town plain folk and verdant Midwestern vistas.
		However, Wood was by nature a meticulous craftsman, and found greater inspiration abroad in the clear, miniaturist detail of fifteenth-century Flemish masters, such as Hans Memling, and at home in the porcelain designs of Willow Ware.
	www.joslyn.org /permcol/20thcen/pages/wood.html (384 words)

	Midwest Today: Grant Wood
		Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891 on his parents' farm four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa, where he spent the first ten years of his life.
		Grant Wood was an exceptional artist from a very young age.
		With "American Gothic," Grant Wood tells the story of Midwestern life and culture through the use of many traditional symbols: the rick-rack on the woman's apron, the gothic window, the pitchfork held in the tight fist of the somber farmer.
	www.midtod.com /9603/grant_wood.phtml (1725 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans
		Wood was born on a farm near Anamosa, and began drawing when he was a boy.
		Wood became famous almost overnight with "American Gothic" in 1930, winning acclaim and $300 for his painting from the Art Institute of Chicago.
		From 1934 on, Wood taught at the University of Iowa.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/wood.html (289 words)

	Introduction, Grant Wood
		Wood's gentle satires and penetrating portraits of the mid-Westerners around him, as well as his sensual, geometric landscapes, endeared him to the American public of the Depression years.
		Wood, for a small-town American of the 1920's and 30's, was surprisingly cosmopolitan and well-traveled.
		However, Wood's critical reception at the time paid little attention to the nuances of the paintings he had given his country to look at; to his contemporaries, Wood was always the "painter in overalls" who promoted the imagined landscape of America and peopled it with identifiable types (Pickering).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA98/haven/wood/intro.html (761 words)

	GRANT WOOD/BIOGRAPHY
		Wood changed his style in 1928 as seen with “American Gothic”, his masterpiece produced in 1930, which became a much popular painting in the U.S. It represented a couple of farmers in front of their house built in the “gothic carpenter” style.
		Wood worked also in a style reminiscent of Holbein but added satirical if not surrealistic elements in his works, notably in “Parson Weems’ Fable” produced in 1930, which evoked the famous history of George Washington when he admitted being at fault in front of his father after cutting a cherry tree.
		Wood painted George Washington with the head of the first portrait of the U.S president produced by Gilbert Stuart while Parson Mason Locke, the teller, was placed in the right of the painting opening a curtain on the scene.
	www.artcult.com /wood.html (713 words)

	Storm Lake Pilot Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The museum houses several of Wood's paintings and is currently showcasing an exhibit of his work, including "American Gothic" - the painting of the stern, balding and bespectacled farmer with pitchfork in hand, and the dour, strait-laced woman in front of a farm house.
		Wood's "Spring Plowing," a landscape of rolling farm fields painted in 1932, was sold Wednesday by an unnamed seller to an unnamed buyer.
		Wood was born in 1891 on a farm near Anamosa, north of Cedar Rapids, where he had a studio.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15695744&BRD=1304&PAG=461&dept_id=180486&rfi=6 (383 words)

	Grant Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant pushed aside the vivid copies of gaudy sunsets and Venetian moonlights to show the young man the wealth of painting material that lay around him – the corner of the mill, his own back yard, the quaint blue doorways, the picturesque stone homes and the millrace fringed with pickerel weed and willows.
		The advice Wood gave to Carl flick to paint what is in your midst was to become one of the rallying cries of regionalism and was of course the lesson Wood himself had learned after so many trips to Europe in his own search of art.
		Soon Wood and Flick’s works would be exhibited together and as Grant Wood’s career exploded with the unveiling of “American Gothic”, Carl Flick’s works received more and more attention.
	www.jacksonsauction.com /past_files/grant_wood.htm (697 words)

	Scribbles - May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant Wood was born in Anamosa, Iowa (three miles from Stone City) in 1891 and there he lived the first ten years of his life.
		Wood reacted by painting what people needed and wanted: nostalgic, reassuring scenes showing clean fields, pure surroundings and the happier times he remembered from his childhood.
		Wood painted this landscape during his most productive years, and it set a style he continued to refine for the rest of his life.
	www.scribbleskidsart.com /generic253.html (414 words)

	Untitled Document
		Iowa native Grant Wood is best known for his folksy depictions of midwestern farm life, such as American Gothic (1930; Art Institute of Chicago), his famous depiction of his sister Nan and his dentist posing as a farmer and his spinster daughter.
		Wood's painting illustrates a scene at the end of the film, when seven tipsy sailors (played by, from left to right, John Qualen, John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald [seated], Thomas Mitchell, Joseph Sawyer, David Hughes, and Jack Pennick) get teary-eyed while singing a familiar song in a pub.
		While he changed the composition slightly from the actual scene, his low vantage point reproduces the view of the movie audience; the table edge is drawn at eye level, and the actors tower over the scene.
	www.nbmaa.org /Gallery_htmls/wood.html (399 words)

	Grant Wood and Modernism
		Grant Wood's family farms and hometown neighbors clashed violently with the subject matter considered appropriate for a modern artist; Wood himself deprecated Modernism as a "clearing-away period" (qtd.
		Wood also employed this kind of geometry in his paintings, not only in the arrangement of the scene, but in the actual execution itself.
		Wood was accused of producing photographic pictures--a strange contention, as most of the landscapes in particular are highly stylized with a modern sensibility.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /etd/theses/ArtsSci/English/1998/Haven/modernism.html (453 words)

	Grant Wood Studio - 5 Turner Alley Story of the Studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant Wood' s home and studio was located at 5 Turner Alley from 1924 to 1934.
		Wood's Cedar Rapids studio is the second floor of a late 19th century carriage house.
		It was in this studio that Grant Wood painted one of the world's most famous works of art American Gothic —; a work that was shown at and purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 for $300.
	www.grantwoodstudio.org /studio.html (147 words)

	Grant Wood Lithographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wood's depiction of the agrarian laborer differs from Millet's in that the Iowa farmer is heroically portrayed as master of his domain rather than as a downtrodden peasant worker of the land, as in Man with Hoe.
		However, Grant Wood also suggests that Regionalism is a fertile philosophy for artistic growth, as evidenced by the numerous references to Gothic Architecture: the farmhouse is the same Carpenter Gothic house from American Gothic, the barn's Gothic vault, and the corn leaves form arched tiers reminiscent of a Gothic church.
		Grant Wood's last composition is perhaps his most closed and focused, showing a doctor's healing hands with the tools of his trade on a 3:00 AM house call.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa551.htm (2716 words)

	Grant Wood
		The lithograph by Wood in the Fine Arts Collection is entitled, "Tree Planting Group." This lithograph, acquired through the Kemp Endowment for the Visual Arts in memory of Henrietta Bonnell Zagel, was completed in 1937.
		Wood’s lithograph series resulted from a 1937 request by Associated American Artists to develop new markets for artists during the Depression.
		Wood was a contributing artist to the group.
	finearts.luther.edu /artists/grantwood.html (311 words)

	MSN Encarta - Grant Wood
		Grant Wood (1892-1942), American painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa, and trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Académie Julian in Paris.
		Wood is best known for his later paintings, which depict the scenes and people of his native Iowa.
		A leader in the regionalist school of 20th-century American art (see American Art and Architecture: Regionalism), he was strongly influenced by the subject matter and technique of various German and Flemish painters of the Renaissance (14th century to 17th century).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560397/Grant_Wood.html (237 words)

	Sister Wendy's American Collection \| Selected Works \| American Gothic
		Wood himself denied this in some interviews, but in others hinted that there were indeed some satiric elements present.
		Wood later revealed that the models were his 30-year-old sister and their 62-year-old family dentist.
		Some see the stray curl at the nape of her neck as related to the snake plant in the background, each one symbolizing a sharp-tongued "old maid." Sister Wendy sees in the curl, however, a sign that she is not as repressed as her buttoned-up exterior might indicate.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/sisterwendy/works/ame.html (424 words)

	Grant Wood
		Wood, Grant, 1891–1942, American painter, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris.
		Wood's American logic: celebrating the opening of Grant Wood's studio to public view, a traveling exhibition places his iconic paintings in their creative context--among his prints, drawings and wryly idiosyncratic works of decorative art.
		Wood Work; Grant Wood and "American Gothic" come to the Renwick.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852642.html (376 words)

	Grant Wood Studio - 5 Turner Alley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant Wood's home and studio was located at 5 Turner Alley from 1924 to 1934.
		Grant Wood (1891-1942) was a prominent member of the Regionalist movement.
		The Grant Wood Studio is a founding member of Historic Artists' Homes and Studios, a Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
	www.grantwoodstudio.org (103 words)

	Grant Wood Paintings
		Wood first came to public attention in 1930, when his painting "American Gothic" won a medal at the Art Institute of Chicago.
		Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at The Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars.
		Some believe that Wood used this painting to satirize the narrow-mindedness and repression that has been said to characterize Midwestern culture, an accusation he denied.
	www.spokaneartists.com /wood.htm (636 words)

	Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Grant Wood was born in Iowa and lived his entire life in the small town of Anamosa where he painted the landscape and the inhabitants.
		Wood is most famous for the painting American Gothic, which depicts a stereotypical Midwest farmer and his wife standing before a Gothic window.
		The emergence of a form within the wood is a natural, and at times arduous, process for her.
	wwar.com /masters/w/wood-grant.html (1406 words)

	The Grant Wood Art Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Held annually, on the second Sunday of June, the Grant Wood Art Festival promotes an appreciation of the arts, and preserves the history of Grant Wood and the area around Stone City and Anamosa, Iowa, known as Grant Wood Country.
		Attracted to the natural beauty of the terrain, Grant Wood chose Stone City as the site of his art colony and school during the summers of 1932 and 1933.
		This same atmosphere is recreated annually at the Grant Wood Art Festival as juried artists and entertainers from throughout the Midwest gather in the scenic valley of Stone City.
	www.grantwoodartfestival.org (199 words)

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