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Grant Wood

Grant Wood

American, 1891

WA-00030123

Painting

Representation

None documented

18

Institutional Exhibitions

35

Works in Collection

47

Assets Indexed

3

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ217434 ULAN500031056

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

No image

American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

No image

American Prints from the International Program

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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The Artist as His Subject

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

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The Artist as His Subject

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

No image

American Prints of the 20th Century

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Edward G. Robinson Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953

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Master Prints from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

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What is Modern Painting?

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1945

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Twentieth Century Portraits

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1942–1943

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We Like Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1940–1941

Field Verification (3 fields)

3 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (2)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/grant-wood
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6439
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Grant Wood was an American painter who developed a distinctive representational style depicting rural Midwestern life and landscape. Working primarily in oil on beaverboard and canvas during the 1920s and 1930s, he created meticulously detailed scenes of farmland, small towns, and their inhabitants rendered with a formal precision that bordered on the decorative. His most celebrated work, American Gothic, became an iconic image of American regionalism. Wood's practice emerged from his engagement with European modernism, particularly German Neue Sachlichkeit, which he synthesized with a deeply specific observation of Iowa's agricultural terrain and social fabric.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (35)

March

1941 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.5 × 30 cm (8 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 30.9 × 40.2 cm (12 3/16 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Family Doctor

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 25.3 × 30.1 cm (10 × 11 7/8 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 45.4 cm (12 7/16 × 17 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

December Afternoon

December Afternoon

1940 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.7 × 30.2 cm (8 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 38.2 cm (11 15/16 × 15 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

February

1940 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.5 × 30 cm (8 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 40 cm (10 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Approaching Storm

Approaching Storm

1940 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.1 × 22.7 cm (11 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 27.7 cm (14 1/16 × 10 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1940 · oil on masonite panel

Framed: 67 x 82.5 x 7.5 cm (26 3/8 x 32 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 45.7 x 60.1 cm (18 x 23 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1940 · lithograph

Sheet: 29.9 x 40.9 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.); Image: 22.6 x 30 cm (8 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1939 · Lithograph

Sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 in. (29.2 × 38.1 cm) Image: 9 × 11 3/4 in. (22.9 × 29.8 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

In the Spring

1939 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.6 × 30 cm (8 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 31.4 × 40.7 cm (12 3/8 × 16 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Midnight Alarm

1939 · Lithograph on white wove paper

Image: 30.3 × 17.7 cm (11 15/16 × 7 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 30 cm (16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fertility

1939 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.8 × 30.2 cm (9 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 41 cm (12 1/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sultry Night

1939 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.8 × 29.6 cm (9 × 11 11/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 25 × 32 cm (9 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shrine Quartet

1939 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 20.2 × 30.1 cm (8 × 11 7/8 in.); Sheet, sight: 22.7 × 33 cm (8 15/16 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vegetables

1939 · Lithograph and watercolor on wove paper

30.1 × 40.5 cm (11 7/8 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fruits

1939 · Lithograph and watercolor on wove paper

26.2 × 34.1 cm (10 3/8 × 13 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tame Flowers

1939 · Lithograph and watercolor on wove paper

29.3 × 40.9 cm (11 9/16 × 16 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wild Flowers

1939 · Lithograph and watercolor on wove paper

29.1 × 40.5 cm (11 1/2 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1939 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

In the Spring

1939 · Lithograph

composition: 9 x 11 15/16" (22.9 x 30.4 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 x 16" (30 x 40.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

July Fifteenth

1938 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 22.8 × 30.2 cm (9 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29.7 × 40.5 cm (11 3/4 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

January

1938 · Charcoal, smudging and erasure, and white Conté crayon on tan paperboard

52 × 68 cm (20 1/2 × 26 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

January

1938 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 22.6 × 30.3 cm (8 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 24.8 × 32.4 cm (9 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Honorary Degree

Honorary Degree

1938 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 30.2 × 17.7 cm (11 15/16 × 7 in.); Sheet: 41 × 30 cm (16 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Honorary Degree

1938 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (5)

35 published of 38 catalogued · 30 with image

Art Institute Chicago
24 published24 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published
MoMA
3 publishedof 6 catalogued6 img
The Met
1 published
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

January
1940 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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January
1938 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Fertility
1939 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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February
1940 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Honorary Degree
1938 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Tree Planting Group
1937 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

American Gothic (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

4

Collections4

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art