What is Grant Wood?
{{Infobox artist | name = Grant DeVolson Wood | image = Grant Wood.jpg | image_size = | caption = ''Self-portrait'', 1932 | birth_name = Grant DeVolson Wood | birth_date = {{birth date|1891|2|13}} | birth_place = [[Anamosa, Iowa]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1942|2|12|1891|2|13}} | death_place = [[Iowa City, Iowa]] | nationality = American | field = [[Painting]] | training = [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] | movement = [[Regionalism (art)|Regionalism]] | works = ''[[American Gothic]]'' | patrons = | awards = }} '''Grant DeVolson Wood''' (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter. He painted the famous ''[[American Gothic]]''. He was 26 when he began his career. ==Style== His main painting style included a mix of stippling and cross-hatching. He usually painted on beaverboard. His preferred paints were oils and tempera. ==Influences== Wood studied several different ways to paint during his trips to [[Europe]]. The paintings of artist [[Jan van Eyck]] convinced him to put new styles in his art. == Gallery == <gallery> File:Grant wood boyhood home.jpg|Grant Woods childhood home, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. File:Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.jpg|''The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere'' 1931. File:Parson Weems' Fable.jpg|''Parson Weems' Fable'' 1939. File:Daughters of Revolution.jpg|''Daughters of Revolution'' 1932. File:'January' by Grant Wood, 1940-41, Cleveland Museum of Art.JPG|''January'', 1940–41. File:Grant Wood - Fall Plowing.jpg|''Fall Plowing'', 1931. File:Grant Wood - American Gothic - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[American Gothic]]'' 1930. </gallery> == Related pages == *[[List of American painters]] {{Modernism}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Grant}} [[Category:1891 births]] [[Category:1942 deaths]] [[Category:American painters]] [[Category:People from Iowa]] {{US-bio-stub}}