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The Oakes-Wood House, also known as the Grant Wood House, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Nicholas Oakes, who established one of the first brickyards in town, built this house in 1858. [2] The two-story brick Italianate structure features a T-shape floor plan, low gable roof, bracketed eaves, and three brick ...
One of Iowa's nine regional Area Education Agencies, Grant Wood Area Education Agency was established in 1974 and serves Eastern Iowa. [25] In 2009, Grant was awarded the Iowa Prize, the state's highest citizen honor. [26] The Grant Wood Art Colony grew out of Jim Hayes’s 1975 purchase of Wood's historic Iowa City home at 1142 Court Street.
Grant Wood's "Fall Plowing" Rural Historic Landscape District is a 123-acre (50 ha) historic district near Viola, Iowa. A date of significance for the district is 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The district includes four contributing buildings and one other contributing site. [1]
The American Gothic House, also known as the Dibble House, is a house in Eldon, Iowa, designed in the Carpenter Gothic style with a distinctive upper window. [3] It was the backdrop of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood, generally considered Wood's most famous work and among the most recognized paintings in twentieth century American art.
Fall Plowing is a 1931 oil painting by Grant Wood depicting a plowed field in his home state of Iowa. It pays homage to the recently developed walking plough and steel plowshare commonly used by farmers in the Midwestern United States during this time. [1]
Brandon Jones, an Iowa City father, was sentenced to five years in prison for bringing a gun into Grant Wood Elementary late last year. Brandon Jones, an Iowa City father, was sentenced to five ...
The Dibble House, Eldon, Iowa Nan Wood Graham (the artist's sister) and Dr. Byron McKeeby (the Woods' family dentist) in the Gallery at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, September 1942. At the time, Wood classified it as one of the "cardboardy frame houses on Iowa farms" and considered it "very paintable". [10]
A cleaning company has been fined $171,000 after federal investigators found 11 children working a "dangerous" overnight shift at a meat processing plant in Iowa. The U.S. Labor Department sa id ...