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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From humble beginnings sketching Iowa's cornfields and rolling hills as a child, painter Grant Wood (1891-1942) became the father of Regionalism-- an artistic movement that celebrated the real-life surroundings of the people. [This] is a picture-book biography that explores the birth of the famous painting, the movement that made it possible, and the artist who created it all.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure," recognized supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America's traditional values--a simple decent, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple....
6) Grant Wood
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the artistic career of the Iowan who painted people, life, and customs of the American Midwest and whose style became known as Regionalism.