2nd+American+art+of+the+1930’s

Art: (noun)
==== the quality, production, [|expression], or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. ====

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Grant Wood (Emily)




Born in Iowa in 1891, Grant Wood became one of the most famous American painters of all time when he created the iconic work American Gothic. Grant Wood painted people he knew and the things he saw. With this painting Grant entered //American Gothic// in a big show at the Art Institute of Chicago, and won the third place prize. People started to see it because a picture of it was posted in the newspaper. Many interpretations of this painting, one of the most popular paintings of the 1930's actual painting is only 78 x 65.3 cm ,now placed in the Art Institute of Chicago.

=Thomas Hart Benton (Mary)= Thomas Hart Benton was a painter and muralist. Himself as well as Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry were the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. We was known for his paintings of everyday scenes of life, mainly composing of the mid-west. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 and died in 1975. ==





John Steuart Curry (Olivia)
==== John Steuart Curry was born in a farm in Dunavant, Kansas in 1897. His parents were well educated and helped him in his growing appreciation in art. He went to school at Kansas Art Institute and also at the Art Institute of Chicago. After college, he became an illustrator for various newspapers and articles. In 1924 he went to Paris to study art by famous realists. In 1937 he was commissioned by a group of newspapers to begin painting murals around Topeka Kansas. Curry began working as an artist more and more, and his goal became to create meaningful art to the American people. He died in 1946 in Wisconsin. ====

**(Hogs Killing a Snake, 1930)**