Grant Wood
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"Grant DeVolson Wood" was an American Painting/painter born four miles (6 km) east of Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.

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You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine, ... Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

In the house itself, the gable is much lower than in the painting -- you can only stand up just barely at the apex.

The people who have been in this devastation don't have anything. They don't have their homes anymore. They don't have any of their belongings. They basically got away with the clothes on their back and little else so I'm sure whatever assistance they can get they're very glad for.

"I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa."

My early work is the result of going around that very territory where I lived and not seeing it.

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.