In this meticulously detailed painting, the artist's seventy-one-year-old mother, Hattie Weaver Wood, holds a sansevieria plant that symbolizes her hardy, upright character. This portrait relects Wood's admiration for early Flemish art and German New Realism, which he had studied during a trip to Munich the previous year.

Back home in Iowa, he applied Old Master technique to local subject matter. Not all Wood's depictions of typical Iowans are as sympathetic. He could be critical of their insularity and narrowmindedness, although his barbs are often blunted by humour, as in his famous painting of a farmer and his wife, American Gothic. But much of his work celebrates the frontier heritage he shared with them.

In the 1930s, as a leader of the Regionalist school, Wood organized an art colony at Stone City, taught at the University of Iowa, and supervised the state's Public Works of Art Project.

Source: The American Art Book (Mini Edition)

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  Parson Weems Fable
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  Appraisal
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  Daughters of the Revolution
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  Dinner for Threshers
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  Haying
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  Moonlight Ride of Paul Revere
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  Return from Bohemia
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  Spring in the Town
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