Almost everyone knowsGrant Wood’s “American Gothic,” the hypnotic painting of a pitchfork-toting farmer and his daughter. But to many fans of the picture—and its many parodies—the rest ...

But any notion that Wood—who died in 1942, of pancreatic cancer, on the day before his fifty-first birthday—is an underrated artist fizzles. “American Gothic” is, by a very wide margin ...

Grant Wood, one of Iowa's most famous artists, based his iconic 1930 painting, "American Gothic," on a unique home in the ...

Grant Wood painted "American Gothic" in 1930 in his studio in Cedar ... The studio is located just four blocks from the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, which will give visitors a rare opportunity ...

That's what Brad Schuster, a RAGBRAI rider from Denver, Colorado, wondered when he witnessed the house that inspired Grant Wood's "American Gothic," emphasizing the contrast between the dour ...