An annual Iowa art festival is named for this "American Gothic" artist, one of the state's native sons
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Iowa's Hometown Heroes  - Group Travel  Native sons and daughters who went from humble beginnings to the national ... Annual festivals or birthday observances pay tribute to the local who made good. ... of all time is remembered at the state-of-the-art Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum, .... is the Grant Wood Studio, where the artist painted American Gothic in 1930.
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Iowa goes 'Gothic' for Grant Wood's 125th birthday - Chicago Tribune  Apr 12, 2016 ... Wood is the lifelong Iowan who painted "American Gothic," the famous ... The work sent the art world's impression of the Iowa native soaring. ... is painting the town red, among other colors, in honor of a famous son who could have ... One of 25 sets of fiberglass statues of Grant Wood's famous farmer and his...
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History and Culture by Bicycle: Iowa State Fair  May 27, 2013 ... Midwest Living magazine named the Fair one of the Top 30 Things Every ... The outgrowth of one of Iowa's early county fairs, the first Iowa State Fair was managed ..... native sons and daughters to "Come Home to the Iowa State Fair. ..... performed at Latham Park's annual art festival, 2016 Art in the Park.
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Annual Events - jService.io - Jeopardy trivia question API  Clues for: Annual Events. Question, Answer, Value, Airdate.
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I'm not the Only Famous Person in Iowa?  Travel Iowa: Official ...  Mar 20, 2015 ... I've been traveling around the state learning about the famous people who ... Art & Culture ... On one of my trips to Iowa, I visited the American Gothic House in Eldon. ... It's the place where Iowa's most famous artist-in-residence got his ... City that celebrates the life of native son Meredith Willson who found...
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Museums & Historic Sites in Maine | Exhibits, Homes & Tours ...  Tour Portland Maine's museums and historic building and homes, see ... poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882), grew up in the house and went on to ... of the Wadsworth-Longfellow house, boyhood home to Portland's native literary ... The city of Portland, the state's largest city, represents Maine's resilience and...
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Frans Hals | The Atelier of Virgil Elliott  Hals was born in Antwerp, but lived most of his life in Haarlem, where the Old Men's ... He was quite successful in his career, but with a large family of ten children to ... The Laughing Cavalier, The Jester, and The Bohemian Girl (also known as ... Frans Hals' younger brother, Dirck Hals, was also a painter, and there is...
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Grant Wood At 5 Turner Alley - Traditional Fine Arts Organization  Sep 10, 2005 ... (right: Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, oil on beaverboard, ... All rights reserved by The Art Institute of Chicago and VAGA, New York, NY, 1930.934) ... After showing at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art the exhibit will tour to .... "American Gothic is the painting that established Grant Wood's reputation.
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Full text of "Maple leaves : a budget of legendary, historical, critical ...  There, the lover of nature, in her grandest and most rugged forms, as in her ...... Another painting on the wall immediately opposite represents the landing of .... spot a magnificent farm : close to it was the presbytere and church of St. Joachim. ...... honor among the people of New Orleans ; he was, with his brother, a founder of...
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American Gothic | The Art Institute of Chicago  Grant Wood's American Gothic caused a stir in 1930 when it was exhibited for the ... Newspapers across the country carried the story, and the painting of a farm...
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The Painting  American Gothic House Center  Eldon, IA  Similarly, Wood's two models, his sister Nan and his dentist Dr. B.H. McKeeby, ... The models for the artwork never posed together when they were drawn prior to, ... that the house in Eldon, Iowa inspired the painting Wood called American Gothic, ... In Woman with Plants, his mother sits in front of a geranium (and a begonia)...
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Grant Wood (1891-1942) - American Regionalist - Sullivan Goss  Grant Wood is known for his regionalist paintings that capture the spirit of the idyllic ... the artist completed his most memorable works upon his return from Munich. In 1930, his painting American Gothic (1930) was accepted into the juried ... between Wood and the University of Iowa's art department, which had began to...
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Thomas Hart Benton essays  Benton was famous for his painting style and his murals. Benton believed that art was an ... Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889. He was the son of Congressman Maecerias E. Benton and the grandnephew of Missouri's first senator, Thomas Hart Benton, for whom he was named. Benton received his first formal art...
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Featured Articles about Christo - Page 2 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Christo, the Bulgarian-born American artist who makes his artistic statements by ... its stone arches as artist Christo began a project to wrap Paris` oldest bridge in ... Christo is a Bulgarian-born American artist (his last name is Javacheff, but he...
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American Gothic - Wikipedia  American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. ... It was thus seen as part of the trend toward increasingly critical depictions of rural America, along the lines of ... One imagines she is grieving for the man beside her. ... American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting.
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American Regionalism: Selections from the Art Museum Collection  about the art movements of the work represented and will be ... Wood from Iowa, are included in the exhibit. ... dominant American style. ... During the 1930's the United States increased its ... leaders of American Regionalism argued that art.
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J! Archive - Show #1659, aired 1991-11-14  Bridgeport, Conn. has an annual festival honoring this 19th c. showman .... A national forest in Missouri's Ozarks is named for this 19th century writer...
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Grant Wood - Wikipedia  Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891  February 13, 1942) was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, .... Grant Wood's Main Street: Art, Literature and the American Midwest. Ames: Exhibition catalog from the Brunnier Art Museum at Iowa...
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Grant Wood - Leader of the Regionalist art movement and painter of ...  See more about Grant Wood, American Gothic and Gothic. ... Grant Wood in his studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1931 standing in front of the unfinished The...
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American Gothic - Wikipedia  American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. ... the same plants as in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother, Woman with Plants. ... Wood protested that he had not painted a caricature of Iowans but a depiction of his appreciation, stating "I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.".
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An annual Iowa art festival is named for this American Gothic artist ...  Jun 27, 2016 ... Americans Answer Basic Questions About Canada. 2:51 ... This American was known as the Napoleon of Luzon # Quiz # Question. 0:29.