Painter Grant Wood

Grant Wood

Living place: Iowa

Birthday: 13-2-1891

Global rank: #25050

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Who is Painter Grant Wood?
Best known for his iconic paintings, 'American Gothic.' He pioneered regionalism with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. He became Cedar Rapids' master artist. "American Gothic" was first exhibited by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. It will never fall out of the American consciousness, glorified and parodied in countless forms of the media.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He began attending the Art Institute of Chicago in 1913; He traveled to Europe four times between 1920 and 1928, where he was exposed to the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles.

Family life info

His father died in 1901, after which his family moved to Cedar Rapids. He grew up with a sister named Nan. He worked as an apprentice at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, hardware store. He and Sara Sherman Maxon were married from 1935 until 1938.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Painter Grant Wood?
He and Jean Seberg were both born in Iowa.

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When was Painter Grant Wood born?
Grant Wood was born in 13-2-1891, death year is , at the age of 133.
Where is Painter Grant Wood's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Grant Wood was born in Iowa, . is a Painter, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Grant Wood's global rank is 25050 and whose rank is 47 in list of famous Painter.
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Events in 1891 and 13-2

Birthday Grant Wood (13-2) in history

  • Day 13-2 year 1866: The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
  • Day 13-2 year 1867: Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.
  • Day 13-2 year 1935: Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • Day 13-2 year 1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb.
  • Day 13-2 year 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
  • Day 13-2 year 2002: The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
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