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GRANT WOOD **Full Name of Artist (birthname** **)-** Grant's real name at birth was Grant DeVolson Wood.

Grant was born Febuary 13,1891 near Anamosa, Iowa.

Grant died Febuary 12,1942 right before his fifty- first birthday, at age fifty.

**Art Medium/materials-painter/printmaker** - Wood also used simple geometric shapes and used earthly colors with influence of German & Flemish paintings of the 1400-1500's. Grant Wood used oil on a panal.used oil on bever board.usd ink.

**Subject/genre** - Wood loves to paint farming landscapes and basic geometric shapes and realistic paintings.

**Art movement/period of artist** - Regionalism/1930s.

**Title of artwork** - American Gothic **Year it was created** -1930 **Medium** - oil and canvas



**Title of artwork** - Young Corn **Year it was created** -1931 **Medium** - oil on Masonite panel



**An interesting fact about my artist-**
 * He painted subjects of the 1400s-1500s!
 * He also painted //Midnight Ride of Paul Revere//.
 * Grant Wood was also very clever and was an excellent craftsman.
 * In World War I Grant Wood was in charge of painting camouflage on vehicles.
 * Grantwood made jewelry.
 * Everybody thought Grant Wood was going to be a farmer.
 * The American Gothic is one of the most used photos for merchandise and food.
 * Grant Wood also liked painting funny little cartoons.
 * Grant Wood used the American Gothic to show what kind of people he grew up around.
 * Grant Wood painted the American Gothic.

Leveton,Deborah.Wood,Grant". //World Book Student//. World Book, 2011. Web. 14 Feb., 2011. Leveton,Deborah.Wood,Grant". //World Book Student//. World Book, 2011. Web. 9 Feb., 2012. "Young Corn." //Cedar Rapids Museum of Art//. 9 Feb. 2012. 
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