Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed
- ISBN-10
- 0876544855
- ISBN-13
- 9780876544853
- Series
- Grant Wood
- Category
- Painters
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Pomegranate
- Authors
- Brady M. Roberts, Grant Wood
Description
Grant Wood's (1891-1942) paintings epitomized the Regionalist movement and attracted an immense popular audience. This book, published as the catalog for the traveling exhibit which premiered at the Davenport Museum of Art in Iowa (1995), is richly illustrated with some sixty of Wood's paintings and preparatory studies. The text examines Modernist influences on the artist, specifically in relation to his abstract design principles and the lasting influence of Neo-Impressionism on his painting.By Brady Roberts, James M. Dennis, James Hornes, and Helen Mar Parkin, Davenport Museum of Art. 128 pages, 60 full-color reproductions, 27 black-and-white illustrations, size: 11 x 9. Smythe-sewn paperbound book.
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