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Grant Wood and Regionalism (Visions on Rural Life and Work) : socks-studio Grant Wood Paintings, Arte Naive, Edward Tulane, Wood Paintings, Artist Grants, Frank Morrison, Thomas Hart Benton, Herbert Hoover, Grant Wood

Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the early years of 20th Century. Following a period of trips to Europe and an interest for impressionist and post-impressionist styles, he discovered the...

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Wood, Grant (1891-1942) - 1929 Woman with Plant by RasMarley, via Flickr Grant Wood Paintings, Artist Grants, Francis Picabia, Grant Wood, Most Famous Artists, American Gothic, Whitney Museum, Plant Painting, American Icons

In this meticulously detailed painting, the artist's seventy-one-year-old mother, Hattie Weaver Wood, holds a sansevieria plant that symbolizes her hardy, upright character. This portrait relects Wood's admiration for early Flemish art and German New Realism, which he had studied during a trip to Munich the previous year. Back home in Iowa, he applied Old Master technique to local subject matter. Not all Wood's depictions of typical Iowans are as sympathetic. He could be critical of their…

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