He claimed to be a??the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isna??t a single thing Ia??ve done, or experienced,a?? said Grant Wood, a??thata??s been even the least bit exciting.a?? Wood was one of Americaa??s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an a??almost mythical figure,a?? recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of Americaa??s traditional valuesa??a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of Americaa??s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with...

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