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Grant Wood

1891 - 1942

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Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grant Wood has received more than 1,555,139 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Grant Wood is the 315th most popular painter (up from 465th in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,579th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Painter.

Grant Wood is most famous for his painting "American Gothic."

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Grant Wood ranks 315 out of 2,023. Before him are Karel van Mander, Bernardino Luini, Cosimo Rosselli, Luigi Russolo, George Hendrik Breitner, and Gerard David. After him are Anton Mauve, Cosimo Tura, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Frans Snyders, Karl Bryullov, and Carl Spitzweg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Grant Wood ranks 30. Before him are Osip Mandelstam, Edward Bernays, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, Fumimaro Konoe, and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia. After him are Frank Costello, Michael Chekhov, Antonio Segni, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, and Alexander Wienerberger. Among people deceased in 1942, Grant Wood ranks 33. Before him are Hector Guimard, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Herschel Grynszpan, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Jozef Gabčík. After him are Tina Modotti, Michel Fokine, Chen Duxiu, Felix Hausdorff, Jan Kubiš, and Yosano Akiko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Grant Wood ranks 992 out of 20,380. Before him are Matt Groening (1954), Nat Turner (1800), Martha Graham (1894), Éamon de Valera (1882), James Tobin (1918), and Frances Marion (1888). After him are Dennis Tito (1940), Mel Ferrer (1917), Tori Amos (1963), Daniel Goleman (1946), Anton LaVey (1930), and Tony Bennett (1926).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Grant Wood ranks 6. Before him are Jackson Pollock (1912), Mary Cassatt (1844), Man Ray (1890), Edward Hopper (1882), and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887). After him are Richard Serra (1939), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834).

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