his father’s death in 1901, the Wood family moved to Cedar Rapids where Grant attended

school and even at an early age revealed his artistic talent. He and his friend, Marvin Cone,

made scenery for plays and drawing for their high school yearbook and both were

enthusiastic volunteers at the Cedar Rapids Art Association. On the night of his high

school graduation in 1910, Grant Wood boarded a train for Minneapolis where he enrolled

in art school. He returned home in 1911 and began teaching in a one-room country school.

In 1913, he moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute and worked in a silversmith

shop. Later, after serving in the Army as a camouflage painter, Wood once again returned

to Cedar Rapids and taught art in the public schools.(Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 1)

He served as artist in residence at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1942.

While abroad, Grant Wood was exposed to current trends in European painting

butconcentrated on the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles. In this, he was

severaldecades behind European painters but current with most American artists. Wood

by showing us part of history. Inexhustibility is present because every time you view it a

brought alot of realization to what Woods wants us to see.

inrelationship to the details and regions. When searching for the meaning of American

The content of any work of art will become clearer when the structure is perceived

stating the farmers in the midwestern time were poor just getting by. The house is

different reality or participative experience can occur by seeing how life was in midwestern

What is so widely overlooked is the irony that Wood seems to have in many of his

and economical points of views in the titles. By expressing these things Grant Wood is

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