Joslyn Art Museum BIBLIOGRAPHY – Grant Wood

Grades K-3

DK Publishing. Tractor (Machines at Work). New York: DK Publishing, 2004.

Leach, Debra Foxley. Grant Wood: The Artist in the Hayloft. New York: Prestel, 2005.

Pierce, Patricia. H is for Hawkeye: An Iowa Alphabet. Sleeping Bear Press, 2003.

Pierce, Patricia. Numbers in a Row: An Iowa Number Book (Count Your Way Across the USA). Sleeping Bear Press, 2006.

Sapre, Reshma. Iowa (Rookie read-about geography). Scholastic, 2004.

* Stephens, Pamela Geiger. Dropping in on Grant Wood. Glenview, IL: Crystal Productions, 2005.

Sweeney, Joan. Me and My Family Tree. New York: Crown Publishers, 2000.

* Venezia, Mike. Grant Wood (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists). Children’s Press, 1996.

Zimet, Sara Goodman. Hannah and the Perfect Picture Pony: A Story of the Great Depression. Discovery Press Publications, 2005.

Grades 4-8

Balcavage, Dynise. Iowa (From Sea o Shining Sea). Children’s Press, 2009.

Bertels, Alice. John Steuart Curry: The Road Home. Leathers Publishing, 2006.

* Duggleby, John. Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Freedman, Russell. Children of the Great Depression. New York: Clarion Books, 2005.

Halley, Ned. Farm. New York: DK Publishing, 1996.

LaDoux, Rita. Iowa (Hello U.S.A.). Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 2002.

Landau, Elaine. The Great Depression. New York: Scholastic, 2007.

Lasky, Kathryn. Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932. Scholastic, 2001.

Woelfle, Gretchen. The Wind at Work: An Activity Guide to Windmills. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1997.

Wroble, Lisa A. Kids During the Great Depression. PowerKids Press, 1999.

* Yenawine, Philip. Key Art Terms for Beginners. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995.

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Grades 9-12

Biel, Steven. American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting. Norton, W.W. & Company, 2005.

* Brown, Hazel E. Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; Artists of an Era. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972.

* Corn, Wanda M. Grant Wood, the Regionalist Vision. Yale University Press, 1985.

Corn, Wanda M., et. al. Grant Wood’s Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic. Prestel Publishing, 2005.

* Czestochowski, Joseph S. John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, with the Cedar Rapids Art Association, 1981.

Damon, Duane. Headin’ for Better Times: The Arts of the Great Depression. Lerner Publications, 2002.

* Dennis, James M. An Essay into Landscapes: The Art of Grant Wood. Manhattan, KS: Kansas Quarterly 1972.

* Dennis, James M. Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986.

Eldredge, Charles C. John Steuart Curry’s Hoover and the Floor: Painting Modern History. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

* Graham, Nan Wood with John Zug and Julie Jensen McDonald. My Brother, Grant Wood. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1993.

Hoving, Thomas. American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood’s American Masterpiece. New York: Chamberlain Bros, 2005.

* Jennings, Kate. Grant Wood. Greenwich: Brompton Books, 1994.

* Junker, Patricia. John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1998.

McDonald, Julie Jensen. Grant Wood and Little Sister Nan: Essays and Remembrances. Penfield Press, 2000.

* Roberts, Brady M., et al. Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995.

Teachers

Baker, T. Lindsay. A Field Guide to American Windmills. University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Becher, Bernd and Hilla. Water Towers. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988.

* Czestochowski, Joseph S. Marvin D. Cone and Grant Wood. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 1989.

Dorman, Robert L. Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in American, 1920-1945. The University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

* DeLong, Lea Rosson. Grant Wood’s Main Street: Art, Literature and the American Midwest. Ames, Iowa: University Museums, Iowa State University, 2004.

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* Dennis, James M. Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

* Guedon, Mary Scholz. Regionalist Art: Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood: A Guide to the Literature. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982.

*Books that may be found at Joslyn Art Museum.

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