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19th and 20th Century Artists: An Art History Research Project

Grant Wood was born in Anamosa, Iowa on Feb. 13th, 1891. After he graduated from Washington High School, he attended an art school in Minneapolis in 1910. In the 1913's he enrolled at the School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. From 1920-1930 he took 4 trips to Europe where he studied many style of painting.

Grant's type of artwork is painting, his style of art is regionalism. Regionalism is a feature that is a characteristic of a particular region. His artworks are used with Lithograph.

Grant Wood died in Iowa City on Feb. 13th, 1942 at the age of 50.

 Approaching Storm 1940 Media: Lithograph URL: http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426115743/143276/grant-wood-approaching-storm.html  Fertility 1939 Media: Litograph URL: http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426011712/143276/grant-wood-fertility.html

The picture of the Fertility is a painting of a landscape. This artwork, is an abstract a distorted reality. The color scheme of this painting is black and white. A feeling this artwork gives me is a flashback of how land look back then. My favorite part of this artwork is the cornfield. I think Grant Wood chose to paint this artwork to show us how the farm look.