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...English climate and the English countenances were cool. They called her father "The Emperor," but there was no conviction in their tones. The family seldom left the brownstone walls of their house in Bath, or the garden, tight-screened by cedar trees...
With her steam-plumed whistle barking, the low, trim Lake tanker Paratex moved down Toledo's Maumee River, cleared Cedar Point, and pushed her blunt bow towards Detroit. The Great Lakes shipping season was open-a month ahead of time on Lake Erie, but none too early. For this year all records must be broken...
Year later the straits of his family called him back to Cedar Rapids where, in a 10-by-16-ft. shack built with his own hands, they weathered a winter of near starvation. For seven years, following a spell as a soldier in World War I, he taught art in Iowa public schools, saving his pennies for a trip to Paris, where all U.S. artists thought they...
...American Legion commissioned him to design a stained-glass window for the Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum. He went to Munich. There, in the work of 15th-and 16th-Century Flemish and German primitives in the Munich museums, he found at last the infinitely scrupulous, polished and detailed kind of painting he had always wanted to do. He returned to Cedar Rapids with a new way of looking at things, started to paint Iowa with the meticulous care of a Memling in modern dress. Two years later American Gothic, exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, created a furor, and Painter Wood...
lowans at first felt insulted by American Gothic, ended by being proud of it. Younger Midwest artists greeted Wood as an emancipator. Wood himself was able to move from his humble residence at the back of a Cedar Rapids funeral parlor to a fine old red-brick house in Iowa City...