Talk:Grant Wood
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[edit] Year of birth
An anon changed the birth-year in the lived-template from 1892 to 1891 which made me go looking to find what the correct year is.
It turns out that many sites indeed have 1891, like Joslyn Art museum, this site (listed as a reference here) and this site to name a few.
But the Artcyclopedia, britannica and this site have 1892.
The google test favours 1891: A search on '"Grant Wood" born 1891' gives 1040 hits, while 1892 only returns 504 hits.
Can anyone come up with a definite birth year for Grant Wood? I'll change the birth-year in the header to 1891 now to make it consistent with the cat year the anon changed (he probably just forgot changing it in the heading too), but I'm not at all sure about this, and we really should have stuff like this accurate. Anyone?? Shanes 22:21, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The bio from Iowa State's website gives an 1892 birth. http://www.lib.iastate.edu/art/gwood.html
[edit] Clean Up
I have begun cleanup on this site, as it has been tagged since April. As far as I can tell, here is what should be done.
Expand the biography, and better incorporate some of the elements that already there into prose that flows more nicely.Evaluate whether the whole paragraph on American Gothic needs to be here or if it should really be dealt with in the American Gothic article.Better incorporate the two "selected works" into the rest of the article.- Also, is there an artist template that should be on this page? I don't know the answer but I wouldn't be suprised if there were.
Matterson52 22:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the cleanup tag as I feel the article has been drastically improved. I was never able to find any kind of Artist Template, however. I do not know if one exists.
Matterson52 17:14, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wood-designed home
On Goblins Gully Dr SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, there is a Wood-designed home from about 1930. I don't recall the address, but the house is on the left and is distinct in appearance from more recent homes.
