Before the world knew about Grant Wood, Iowa's most celebrated artist was exploring the world around him, from his childhood penchant for drawing under the kitchen table to making multiple trips to ...

Coe College may no longer count the value of a donated 1932 Grant Wood mural toward its endowment, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday, shrinking the institution's nest egg by $5.4 million at a time ...

An icon of Americana is coming to New York for the first time in nearly 20 years: Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2018 retrospective ...

An exhibit spotlighting Iowa’s most famous artist opens next week at the Des Moines Art Center featuring two versions of what’s arguably Grant Wood’s most controversial work called “Sultry Night.” The ...

Grant Wood’s 1930 oil-on-board “Arnold Comes of Age” — painted the same year as “American Gothic” — is a highlight of “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” running just one more ...

This exhibition of work by Grant Wood at the Whitney Museum, offers an opportunity to reconsider a very unusual artist who has been pigeonholed as irretrievably conservative and sentimental. But ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — Trundling along the gravel roads of eastern Iowa, through valleys planted with neat rows of corn and over rolling, wooded hills, you can easily understand how the land inspired ...

MILWAUKEE (CN) - A woman claims in court that a University of Wisconsin art history professor agreed to store her Grant Wood painting "Sultry Night" at the school's art museum - then put it up for ...

Beware of art professors offering to care of your prized artworks. That’s what a Wisconsin woman implicitly warns in a new lawsuit that accuses a retired University of Wisconsin art history professor ...

In its great sailing ship by the river, decorated by visitors parading its terraced decks, the Whitney Museum of American Art in Renzo Piano’s 2015 building has proven to be improbable architecture ...