He did, however, loan paintings for exhibits. One potential buyer told him, "I saw your Grant Wood painting ‘Old Shoes' in a recent Eastern exhibit.

I am heading north from St. Louis to Iowa City, and on the way I veer west, to visit the American Gothic House, in Eldon, a house I had heard of in a town I had never heard of. Eldon is a quiet ...

Artist Grant Wood is famous for his paintings depicting the rural Midwest, especially his native Iowa. And now, one of his largest pieces is on its way to the Midwest Art Conservation Center at ...

Wood took aim at the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose members, he claimed, “are trying to set up an aristocracy of birth in a Republic.” Cincinnati Art Museum / The Edwin and ...

From a chronically moisturized baby hippo to Trump’s bloody ear and the glorification of Luigi Mangione, nothing was off limits this year.