R. Tripp Evans
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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....