The famous painting by Grant Wood shows a farmer holding a pitchfork and a woman standing next to him. The earlier sketch is ...

IOWA CITY — Open the front gate at 1142 E. Court St. and you're touching history. Follow the limestone path to the front door and you're walking on history. Open the louvered outer front door and ...

Other than Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” it would be hard to name a work of Western art that has been more exhaustively reproduced, parodied, pimped, praised, and ...

What the Museum Says: “Wood sought pictorially to fashion a world of harmony and prosperity that would answer America’s need for reassurance at a time of economic and social upheaval occasioned by the ...

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 ...

Criselda Vasquez, “The New American Gothic” (2017), oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches (courtesy the artist) Ever since it was first displayed at the Art Institute Chicago (AIC) in 1930, Grant Wood’s ...

An art walk to examine the murals of Grant Wood will take place at the Parks Library at noon on Wednesday. The murals are permanent parts of the Iowa State University library and are located just ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A Grant Wood painting that sold for $6.96 million at ...

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 ...

Thirty-seven years ago this week, Geraldo Rivera hosted a hugely publicized opening of what was hyped as a secret Al Capone treasure vault in Chicago. To Rivera’s embarrassment, the two-hour live TV ...

This article is published in Explore Magazine's fall & winter 2018 issue, featuring Iowa's scenic byways. This week, The Gazette will publish articles featuring one byway each day online. You can pick ...