Grant Wood, creator of the...
Grant Wood, creator of the famous painting, American Gothic, grew up in
Anamosa, Iowa. When this Iowa farm boy decided to become a painter, he imagined
there was only one place for him to go: Paris. He joined the expatriate American art
community there, and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway and
Gertrude Stein.
Then, one day in the year 1926, Wood woke up with a chilling thought. "Everything I've
done up to now," he told his friend, the historian William Shirer, "is wrong -- and, my