Grant DeVolsen Wood (Anamosa, Iowa, Verengide Staten, 13 February 1891 - Iowa City, 12 February 1942) was an American painter. He is considered part of the movement of realism. Wood made his name mainly with his works from the thirties, painted in a strictly Verist style, strongly influenced by the German Renaissance and the new professionalism. With his landscapes and portraits of farmers and ordinary people, he is one of the most important representatives of American realism and regionalism. His work is characterized by a certain sentimentality and a kind of decorative mannerism.
The picture called “Death on the Ridge Road” (1935) is as menacing as it is sweet. The truck is on a collision course with a large black car, and a third car lurks in shadows in the painting’s lower left corner. A storm brews in a corner of the sky. The fence posts beside the road tilt menacingly, while the two cross-shaped telegraph poles suggest the funereal. Wood had a special fondness for the funerary and once used a coffin lid as his studio’s front door.
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