1. Grant Wood - Great American Artist
... became to be known as one of Cedar Rapids' most eligible single man (Peltakian, para. 9). Not only did Wood become a husband in 1935, he lost his mother. He married an actress and opera singer, Sara Maxon. While his family and friends looked down on him for marrying this lady, they finally got divorced in 1939. After this complicated part of his ... of the painting. Wood began his painting on thirty-by twenty-five-inch piece of beaver board. He then applied a white foundation and drew an outline of the picture in black (Evans, page 90). Wood then began to ask his dentist, Byron McKeeby,...
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