TY - BOOK AU - Evans,R.Tripp TI - Grant Wood: a life T2 - A Borzoi book SN - 030726629X AV - ND237.W795 U1 - 759.13B 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, NY PB - Knopf KW - Wood, Grant KW - Painters KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Biografie KW - gnd-content N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-380) and index; Introduction -- Paint like a man -- American, Gothic -- Wood into stone -- A fabled life -- Epilogue N2 - Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure," recognized supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America's traditional values--a simple decent, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010018019-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010018019-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2010018019-s.html ER -