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Grant Wood (American, 1892–1942). The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931. Oil on Masonite. 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1950 (50.117). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Art © Estate of Grant Wood / Licensed by VAGA, NY; Photograph © 1988 The Metropolitan Museum of ArtAmerican Regionalism
February 13, 1891, near Anamosa, Iowa
Wood, an oil painter whose art portrayed an idealistic view of the American mid-west, is best known for the painting American Gothic (1930).
February 12, 1942, Iowa City, Iowa
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