Grant Wood

Grant Wood is an American painter, emblematic figure of the Regionalist movement that celebrates rural Midwest America during the Great Depression. His most famous work, "American Gothic" (1930), depicting an austere farmer and his daughter in front of a Gothic-style house, has become an icon of American culture, symbolizing both traditional values and a certain Puritan rigidity. His precise style, with sharp contours and stylized compositions, idealizes Iowa's landscape and agricultural life with a touch that is both realistic and slightly satirical.