Grant Wood was born on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa on February 13, 1891.
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 .
is best known for his later paintings, which depicts the scenes and people of his native .
Iowa. A leader in the regionalists school of 20th century American art, he was strongly .
influenced by the subject matter and technique of various German and Flemish painters of .
the Renaissance (14th century to 17th century). (Grant Wood Painting 1) In translating .
their stylized formality to the American scene, however, he added his own distinctive .
touches of irony and realism. This satirical treatment can be observed in Wood's most .
famous work, the double portrait American Gothic.
Stone City, Fall Plowing and American Gothic are present subject matter in the .
title. They are in artistic form which informs us about life. He is the intentions on political .
