Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables Mar 2–June 7, 2018

Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables

Mar 2–June 7, 2018

Painting of impending car accident on a steeply-inclined road.
Painting of impending car accident on a steeply-inclined road.

Grant Wood, Death on the Ridge Road, 1935. Oil on composition board, 39 x 46 1/16 in. (99 x 117.2 cm). Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; gift of Cole Porter 47.13. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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