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Wood, Grant (1891-1942) - 1929 Woman with Plant by RasMarley, via Flickr Grant Wood Paintings, Artist Grants, Francis Picabia, Grant Wood, Most Famous Artists, American Gothic, Whitney Museum, American Icons, A4 Poster

In this meticulously detailed painting, the artist's seventy-one-year-old mother, Hattie Weaver Wood, holds a sansevieria plant that symbolizes her hardy, upright character. This portrait relects Wood's admiration for early Flemish art and German New Realism, which he had studied during a trip to Munich the previous year. Back home in Iowa, he applied Old Master technique to local subject matter. Not all Wood's depictions of typical Iowans are as sympathetic. He could be critical of their…

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