6 days ago by trundlebedtales

Anamosa is near here. It’s the heart of Grant Wood country. A lovely area and they have a bed and breakfast in a one-room school. It was a school and then for many years it was a family home. Now they’ve outgrown it, the same family has made it a bed and breakfast. They even offer a kennel for your ...

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26 days ago by DM

In 2006 we opened a Bed and Breakfast, using the regional art of Grant Wood as our theme. We purchased 5 prints and had them professionally framed @ $175 to $250 a pop. Grant Wood was a prolific painter, and there were at least five or six more I really wanted to display. It was at this point , I th ...

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27 days ago by Gregg

Workers install sections of tempered glass to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum’s stained glass window in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, December 12, 1974. A four-month project to protect the window was declared complete on this day. The 24-foot-high-by 20-foot-wide window, honoring veterans from the Revolu ...

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31 days ago by Chris

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32 days ago by admin

When I was young I thought the paintings of Grant Wood were terrible. They were sentimental and slight. Today, the work is not too bad, as an interesting view of early Americana. Picasso’s Guernica was fabulous. Now, its not nearly as good. Too theatrical and not a real statement about war. [...]

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72 days ago by Jake

You, too, can have your picture taken with Grant Wood in the visitor center right underneath his old studio at 5 Turner Alley!

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74 days ago by Jake

The American Gothic house is still standing. And its visitor center even has free props and costumes if you want to take pictures!

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81 days ago by Jake

This weekend, the domestic partner and I are taking our friends Matthew and Craig to my hometown to give them a tour of some of the haunts of Grant Wood, who is most famous for teaching art at the high school that was later attended by a certain Chicago blogger with a readership in the tens if not t ...

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83 days ago by TonyfromOz

AMERICAN GOTHIC They keep telling us that this economic meltdown could be a replay of the 1929 stock market crash, so it was only natural that the image of the farm couple in Grant Wood’s fantastic “ American Gothic” came to mind. But every attempt to draw the painting was a gross and grotesque fail ...

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84 days ago by papundits

AMERICAN GOTHIC They keep telling us that this economic meltdown could be a replay of the 1929 stock market crash, so it was only natural that the image of the farm couple in Grant Wood’s fantastic “ American Gothic” came to mind. But every attempt to draw the painting was a gross and grotesque fail ...

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