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In making these paintings, as you may have guessed, I had in mind something which I hope to convey to a fairly wide audience in America -- the picture of a country rich in the arts of peace; a homely lovable nation, infinitely worth any sacrifice necessary to its preservation.
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Original works by Grant Wood available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
American Gothic, 1930
The Pump, drawing, 1937
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
Landscape
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Grant Wood
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Grant Wood at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Ride of Paul Revere, 1931 (Zoom)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa, 1931
Grant Wood at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Grant Wood
Academy Art Museum, Maryland
July Fifteenth, lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Parson Weems' Fable
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Illustration from Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Honorary Degree
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Midnight Alarm
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Fertility, lithograph, 1939
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Sultry Night
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Main Street Mansion, 1936-37
Iowa State University
Information about four murals by Grant Wood
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Sheaves of Corn, 1931
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Sentimental Ballad, 1940
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Approaching Storm, 1940
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Return from Bohemia, 1935
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The Good Influence
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Arnold Comes of Age (Portrait of Arnold Pyle)
February (Horses in Snow), lithograph
January (Cornshocks), lithograph
Sioux City Art Center, Iowa
July Fifteenth, 1938
Grant Wood at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
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Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Near Sundown
Swope Art Museum, Indiana
Spring in Town, 1941
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
2 works online
The Coe College Permanent Collection of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Boy Milking Cow, detail
University of Delaware Museums NEW!
Various works by Grant Wood
Virtual Museum of Canada
Fertility, 1939
Virtual Museum of Canada
In the Spring, 1939
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Seed Time and Harvest, lithograph
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Death on the Ridge Road, 1935
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Grant Wood at CGFA
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web
Grant Wood at ImageNETion
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
Grant Wood: The Stone City Web Site
Museum for American Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Going Back to Iowa: The World of Grant Wood
Other Web Sites:
PBS
American Gothic
Commentary from "Sister Wendy's American Collection"
University Art Museum at the University of California
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Grant Wood
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Resource Library Magazine
The Grant Wood Collection at the Dubuque Museum of Art
Grant Wood at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Grant Wood papers online
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
American Gothic, 1930
Time Magazine
"Scooting Back to Anamosa: Grant Wood at the Whitney", 1983 article by Robert Hughes
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