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1891 – 1942Grant Wood (1891-1942)Died 12 February 1942, aged 50Grant Wood was an American painter and a leader of the Regionalist movement, which depicted the rural Midwest. His 1930 painting American Gothic is among the most recognised images in American art. He died of pancreatic cancer in Iowa City.