Wood,
Grant, 1891–1942 Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891
on his parents' farm four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa.
Grant Wood was an exceptional artist from a very young
age. When he was 14, he won third prize in a national
contest for a crayon drawing of oak leaves and said that
winning that prize was his inspiration to become an artist.
His formal art education included two summers with Ernest
Batchelder at the School of Design and Handicraft in Minneapolis
and three years of occasional night classes at the Art
Institute of Chicago.
In October 1920, Grant Wood set out on a trip to Europe,
telling his sister "the art critics and dealers want no
part of American art. They think this country is too new
for any culture and too crude and undeveloped to produce
any artists. You have to be a Frenchman, take a French
name, and paint like a Frenchman to gain recognition."
It wasn't long before Grant would prove them wrong.
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