The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Wood, Grant, 1891-1942

LC control no.n 50014999
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingWood, Grant, 1891-1942
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1891-02-13
Death date1942-02-13
Place of birthAnamosa (Iowa)
Place of deathIowa City (Iowa)
Profession or occupationPainters
Found inHis Revolt against the city, 1935.
Grant Wood, c1993: CIP galley (p. 1: Grant Wood, b. 1891; p. 104 of galley "Wood painted the date 1892, the year he thought he was born. For unexplained reasons Wood continually confused his birthdate, thinking it 1892 rather than 1891")
CIP info rec. 10-18-93 (request from publisher & Grant Wood's sister to correct birthdate on LC auth. & bib. records to 1891; many biographical directories perpetuate the error in Wood's birthdate)
Wikipedia, July 27, 2017: Grant Wood page (Grant Wood; Grant DeVolson Wood, born February 13, 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa; died February 13, 1942 in Iowa City, Iowa; was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, an iconic painting of the 20th century)
Associated languageeng