1. Grant Wood - Great American Artist
... War I, Wood served in the military as a camouflage designer, made clay models of field gun positions and painted cannons (VAGA, para. 3 ). While his mother began to become ill, Wood moved back to Cedar Rapids in 1919. Wood made several trips to Europe between 1920 and 1928. He first went to Paris with a high-school friend, Marvin Cove, in 1920. After his ... the 1930s that came from his pathological shyness that had fueled his earlier life. His note read: "I was as bashful a child as ever lived. I could not speak a piece at the Sunday School entertainment, or sing a song at the school a...
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