02/25/2026
Art Time at MBH had residents connecting to Grant Wood.
🎨Each month residents are invited to come to Art Time. Today, we presented this program as part of our morning activities.
Our featured artist was Grant Wood. Wood was born February 13, 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa.
🎨Grant was best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. His most notable work is an oil painting titled "American Gothic" We all know this painting that Grant produced in 1930. It was first exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it is still located. It was awarded $300 prize and made nationwide press's, bringing Wood into the limelight. Since then, it has been borrowed for endless advertisements, cartoons and more.
🎨It is one of the most famous paintings in American art, and one of the few images to reach the status of widely recognized cultural icon, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
🎨Wood's sister, Nan and dentist Dr.Byron McKeeby were selected to be the models for American Gothic.
🎨As a fan of art, it makes me smile when residents take interest in art and express what they see in a painting and also tell how it makes them feel.
🎨Each resident in this activity recalled "America Gothic" from some point in their life. Some recalled this image being on a cereal box. Others from cards and some remembered their friends recreating this image using themselves as the models.
🎨Our quote of the week comes from Grant Wood who once said "All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
🎨You have to admire an artist who realized that milking time was also a great time for thinking creatively.
Thank you, residents for being interested in art!
Chuck Repnow
Activities Manager
