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Grant Wood : a life / R. Tripp Evans.

by Evans, R. Tripp, 1968-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Wood, Grant, 1891-1942.

Painters -- United States -- Biography.

xii, 402 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-380) and index.

Introduction -- Paint like a man -- American, Gothic -- Wood into stone -- A fabled life -- Epilogue.

Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure," recognized supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America's traditional values--a simple decent, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple.

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