Grant Wood Quotes


Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.


Citations

Wood, Grant. Return from Bohemia. Circa 1935. Unpublished manuscript. Grant Wood Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Grant Wood
Grant Wood
  • Born: February 13, 1891
  • Died: February 12, 1942
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Artist

Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of 20th-century American art.