Grant Wood

'American Gothic's' Grant Wood lived here

2009-12-03 11:13:47

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Jim Murray on John Wooden, Aug. 10, 1972

2010-06-13 00:00:00

This column on John Wooden, written by the late Jim Murray, was originally printed in the Aug. 10, 1972 edition of the Los Angeles Times. You picture the man who is, demonstrably, the world's greatest basketball coach, and there comes to view a guy...

Monster Mash: Ernest Fleischmann remembered; Getty Trust leadership dilemma

2010-06-15 16:33:07

Weekend estate sale of Danish Modern plus midcentury ceramics by artist Sue Christy

2010-03-13 16:33:34

Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91

2009-01-17 00:00:00

Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic yet often melancholy paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's most popular living artists, and whose 1948 landscape "Christina's World" was one of the 20th century's most famous artworks, died...

Chicago's new sparkle

1998-09-13 00:00:00

"The time has come to bring order out of chaos incident to rapid growth," wrote the architect Daniel H. Burnham. The year was 1909. The place, Chicago. The occasion, the unveiling of Burnham's sweeping, visionary plan to change the face of the city on the...

New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care

2012-04-27 16:03:38

When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon." The new...

Report: Marilyn Monroe statue is moving on to California

2012-05-02 12:39:00

If nothing else, Marilyn had legs. The crowds began posing beneath the 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe's billowing skirt from the moment that Seward Johnson's Forever Marilyn sculpture arrived in Pioneer Court in July, and they were doing so with just as...

Not a five-and-dime operation

2012-04-15 15:33:00

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A French chef selling crepes from a food cart on an Arkansas city street may seem out of place, but business is very good for Crepes Paulette. It's about to get a lot better. The wagon is parked at the head of a scenic path...

Scott Stantis Cartoon Caption Contest Winner

2011-12-01 00:00:00

WINNER: Stacia Smits, South Holland: Hurry, before they slap an ad on us! RUNNERS-UP: Paul Pustelnik, Chicago: Sears might not but Grant Wood. Pat Foley, Homer Glen: The Art Destitute. Dillon Hermon, Peotone: Pitch-Hikers! Blog bonuses: Beth...

Northern Baltimore city calendar of events

2011-10-20 00:00:00

Submit notices via email: messenger@patuxent.com; fax: 410-332-6336; or mail: Baltimore Messenger, 501 N. Calvert St., Third Floor, Baltimore, MD 21278. Include sponsor or host, date, time, address of event, contact name and phone number. Deadline is...

Yes, it's Marilyn: Wraps removed from towering statue

2011-07-15 06:14:00

It is Marilyn Monroe. If there was any question what the 26-foot-tall statue on Pioneer Court on Michigan Avenue was, all doubt was removed this morning when the final drapings came off and the blonde bombshell's face was there for all to gaze on. For...

Barbara Miller of LaPorte, Ind., holds her cross stitched copy of Edward Hopper's "Night Hawks" in front of the larger original at the Art Institute of Chicago. She completed the work in December after spending 3 1/2 years working on it while dreaming of being able to hold it next to the original.

2011-03-08 10:55:00

As a pedestrian walks past, snow falls on a 25-foot-tall statue titled "God Bless America." The statue by J. Steward Johnson was inspired by Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic."

2010-01-07 00:00:00

Cecilia and John Hatcher poser next to a cut-out caricature of "American Gothic" inside the Grant Wood Art Gallery in Anamosa, Iowa , where the artist lived until he was 10. Wood's sister was the model for the farm wife; the farmer was Wood's dentist.

2009-10-23 16:23:38