Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Grant Wood and Regionalism
Iowa-born Grant Wood studied painting in Europe for
several years, but returned to the United States in the
1920s. He developed his own style, inspired by the brilliant
colors and tiny details of 15th-century Flemish paintings.
Responding to a resurgence of nationalism after the First
World War and to a renewed fascination with America's past,
Wood painted many scenes of historical and regional
interest, including in them farm houses, small town folk,
and the rural landscape. He and other midwestern artists who
painted scenes of Americana were called regionalists. Wood's
regionalist paintings made him one of America's most popular
artists.
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