The former general store in tiny Stone City, Iowa, is now a popular bar-restaurant. The limestone building is depicted in a Grant Wood painting of the village. (Jay Jones / Chicago Tribune)
Iowa celebrates the 125th anniversary of the birth of “American Gothic” painter, Grant Wood.
Jon and Cecilia Hatcher pose beside a life-size caricature of “American Gothic” at the Grant Wood Art Gallery in Anamosa, Iowa. The artist was born in Anamosa in 1891. (Jay Jones / Chicago Tribune)
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is home to 200 of Grant Wood’s creations, including “Spring in the Country,” a painting evocative of rural Iowa. (Mark Tade / Cedar Rapids Museum of Art)
Prints of Grant Wood paintings, including “American Gothic,” are displayed in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, studio where he painted them during the Great Depression. The original of his most famous work hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. (Jay Jones / Chicago Tribune)
