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Grant Wood Dies; Was Ill At Iowa City 
1942 

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IOWA CITY, IA.- Grant wood died at 10 p. m. Thursday. 

The painter of "American Gothic," "Daughters of Revolution," "Fall Plowing" and many other Internationally famed canvases died at the State University of Iowa Hospital. 

Wood entered the hospital Nov. 24 for a checkup. ON Dec. 19, he underwent a major operation. He would have been 50 today. 

In a weakened condition the last three days, the artist died quietly. Cancer of the liver was the cause of death. It was not announced who was at his bedside when death came. 

The appearance of a Wood painting often aroused hot criticism. But he still remained Iowa's greatest painter, and one of the most widely known and respected in the nation. 

Wood planted art in Iowa as the men and women he painted planted corn and oats and wheat and the other good things for which Iowa is famous. 

Wood was born Feb. 13, 1892, on a farm near Anamosa, Ia. His father, Francis Maryville Wood, was a stern Quaker who would 

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Grant Wood.
He planted Art in Iowa. 

not permit Grimm's "Fairy Tales" in the house because they were not true. Je died when Wood was 10. 

Encouraged by Mother. 
Wood's encouragement and support in his struggles for advancement in art came from his mother, Hattie Weaver Wood. 

As a child Wood knew the broad fields heh later was to paint with so much feeling. Wood saw blizzards smashing ascross teh naked winter fields; sweated in the hayfields during the sultry dog-days. 

Family Lost Farm. 
The Wood family lost the farm following the death of Grant's father. Mrs. Wood, three boys, and a girl were left to make their own way. The family moved to a tiny 10-by-16 foot shanty on the outskirts of Cedar Rapids, Ia. 

Old-timers still remember Wood as "the boy who held the doctor's horse." Wood carpentered, mowed lawns, milked cows, raised vegetables to help hold the family together. 

Many years later he remarked 

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