Word: pinakothek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German primitive room of Munich's famed Old Pinakothek Museum, Grant Wood on one of his few trips to Europe saw a grimy, meticulous little man painstakingly copying a 15th-Century panel with layer upon layer of tempera glaze. Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S. scene. Back to Cedar Rapids he went, shaved off his pink whiskers, settled down to being the Breughel of the Com Belt among the dentists, butchers, farmers and shopkeepers with whom he was brought...