Brief Biography-Grant DeVolson Wood was from Iowa, USA. He was a founder of the Regionalist movement, an American realist modern art movement. He grew up in Cedar Rapids, where he began his painting life and trained in the Handicraft Guild in Minneapolis and the Chicago Art Institute. He spent a year in the Académie Julian in Paris and became swayed by impressionism. He travelled to Germany in 1928, where northern renaissance art strongly influenced him. His painting American Gothic is one of the most famous paintings ever associated with America. It sealed his reputation as a renowned artist. In his later years, he taught at the School of Art at the University of Iowa. He died at the early age of fifty-one from cancer.