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In making these paintings, as you may have guessed, I had in mind something which I hope to convey to a fairly wide audience in America -- the picture of a country rich in the arts of peace; a homely lovable nation, infinitely worth any sacrifice necessary to its preservation.
| - Grant Wood, in a statement accompanying his final painting |
Grant Wood Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Grant Wood available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Grant Wood at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Amon Carter Museum, Texas Parson Weems' Fable
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina In the Spring
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana Tree Planting Group, 1937
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Honorary Degree
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Midnight Alarm
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts Fertility, lithograph, 1939
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Page forward to see additional works
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee Main Street Mansion, 1936-37
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Iowa State University Information about four murals by Grant Wood
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Stone City, Iowa, 1930
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana Sheaves of Corn, 1931
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, 1931
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Sentimental Ballad, 1940
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh March, 1941
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Approaching Storm, 1940
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Return from Bohemia, 1935
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Seed Time and Harvest
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Arnold Comes of Age (Portrait of Arnold Pyle)
Sioux City Art Center, Iowa July Fifteenth, 1938
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Scroll down to the bottom of the page for 3 prints by Grant Wood
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Near Sundown
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! 2 works online
The Coe College Permanent Collection of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Boy Milking Cow, detail
The Huntington Library, California
University of Delaware Museums Various works by Grant Wood
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Plaid Sweater, 1931
Virtual Museum of Canada Fertility, 1939
Virtual Museum of Canada In the Spring, 1939
Waterloo Center for the Arts, Iowa Click the "Grant Wood" link for about a dozen paintings and prints
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Various works online
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Death on the Ridge Road, 1935
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
California State University WorldImages Database
Grant Wood at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
The History Project at U.C. Davis
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Museum for American Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville Going Back to Iowa: The World of Grant Wood
PBS American Gothic - with commentary by Sister Wendy Beckett
University Art Museum at the University of California
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Grant Wood Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Resource Library Magazine The Grant Wood Collection at the Dubuque Museum of Art
Grant Wood at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. The Grant Wood papers online
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on American Gothic, 1930
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting
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American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece
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Renegade Regionalists
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Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed
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