Lincoln returns to Illinois Oct 15, 2009
They will commemorate the town's native son, John Bloom, who was a protg of Grant Wood. Bloom painted "Shucking Corn" for the DeWitt U.S. Post Office in the late 1930s and features a team of white horses hitched to a wagon. (Kalona News, IA)
Art and The American Civil War Sep 21, 2009
The clear skies and smoothly rolling fields and hills of Hope s Wasted Gallantry are also artistically fascinating and even seem to lead the way in style toward 20th century American Regionalists like John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. Nicola Marschall. (Suite101.com)
Chalk it up to talent, fun Sep 21, 2009
On the Central Avenue sidewalk, a woman knelt on a foam board as she worked on her own version of the classic "American Gothic Couple," painted in 1930 by Grant Wood. Instead of a pitchfork, the man was holding an ice cream cone, and the white house in the background had been replaced with the red Wells Blue Bunny visitor center. (Sioux City Journal)
Missing Pieces Of Grant Wood Mural Sought Jul 25, 2009
The fragments were part of a mural created by the late Grant Wood, the internationally known Iowa artist who painted the iconic "American Gothic.". The mural, which once depicted the rolling cornfields of Iowa, was discovered in an old Council Bluffs hotel. (7 KETV Omaha)
FDR's public art program lives on Apr 20, 2009
This frenetic era plunged painters and sculptors into a white-hot cauldron of creativity, nurturing artists such as Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Malvina Hoffman and Alice Neel. Overall, the government pumped nearly $5 million into making public art, or the equivalent of roughly $70 million in today's dollars. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
