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جرانت دي فولسون ود
يتمه: مات ابوه وعمره 11 سنة.
مجاله: فنان- راسم امريكي.
Grant DeVolson Wood
(February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an
American
painter
, born four miles east of
Anamosa
,
Iowa
. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American
Midwest
, particularly the painting
American Gothic
, an iconic image of the 20th century.
His family moved to
Cedar Rapids
after his father died in 1901. Soon thereafter he began as an apprentice in a local metal shop. After graduating from
Washington High School
, Wood enrolled in an art school in
Minneapolis
in 1910, and returned a year later to teach in a one-room schoolhouse.
[3]
In 1913 he enrolled at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and did some work as a
silversmith
.
From 1920 to 1928 he made four trips to Europe, where he studied many styles of painting, especially
impressionism
and
post-impressionism
. But it was the work of the fifteenth-century Flemish artist
Jan Van Eyck
that influenced him to take on the clarity of this new technique and to incorporate it in his new works. From 1924 to 1935 Wood lived in the loft of a carriage house that he turned into his personal studio at "5 Turner Alley" (the studio had no address until Wood made one up himself). In 1932, Wood helped found the
Stone City Art Colony
near his hometown to help artists get through the
Great Depression
. He became a great proponent of regionalism in the arts, lecturing throughout the country on the topic.
[4]
Wood taught painting at the
University of Iowa
's
School of Art
from 1934 to 1941. During that time, he supervised mural painting projects, mentored students, produced a variety of his own works, and became a key part of the University's cultural community. A
closeted
homosexual
, he was fired because of a relationship with his personal secretary.
[5]
On February 12, 1942, one day before his 51st birthday, Wood died at the university hospital of
liver cancer
.
When Wood died, his estate went to his sister,
Nan Wood Graham
, the woman portrayed in
American Gothic
. When she died in 1990, her estate, along with Wood's personal effects and various works of art, became the property of the
Figge Art Museum
in
Davenport, Iowa
.
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