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
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Grant Wood
American, 1891
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35
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47
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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
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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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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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.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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