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Beyond the pitchfork: the real Grant Wood, at last. American Gothic is the most famous American painting of the twentieth century — and R. Tripp Evans’s definitive 2010 biography reveals the complex man behind the overalls-and-pitchfork icon: far stranger and more interesting than the myth.
From Iowa farm boyhood to Paris studios and back to the Midwest, Wood forged Regionalism: art rooted in American soil and small-town life. Evans explores the masterpieces — American Gothic (1930), Daughters of Revolution, Stone City, Iowa — alongside the fiercely guarded private life: the teaching, the Stone City Art Colony, the illness that took him at just fifty-one.
Richly illustrated and elegantly written, this acclaimed life restores Grant Wood to his rightful place among America’s great modern artists — essential for art lovers and anyone who has stood before that famous farmhouse couple and wondered who they really were.
Grant Wood: A Life by R. Tripp Evans is the definitive 2010 biography of the Iowa painter behind American Gothic — the most famous American painting of the twentieth century. Drawing on fresh research, Evans reveals the complex man behind the overalls-and-pitchfork icon. A landmark of American art biography.
From his Iowa farm boyhood to Paris studios and back to the Midwest, Wood forged Regionalism: an art rooted in American soil and small-town life. Evans explores his masterpieces — American Gothic (1930), Daughters of Revolution, Stone City, Iowa — alongside the private life Wood guarded fiercely: his teaching, his Stone City Art Colony, and the illness that took him at just fifty-one.
Richly illustrated and elegantly written, this acclaimed biography restores Grant Wood to his rightful place as one of America’s great modern artists. Essential for art lovers, biography readers and anyone who has ever stood before that famous farmhouse couple and wondered who they really were — and what they truly meant.
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