Grant Wood's Memorial Masterpiece

Two years before Grant Wood painted American Gothic, he began working on what the author believes to be his most important work of art: a stained-glass window honoring Iowa's veterans for the newly built Veteran's Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A fitting tribute to the memory of veterans of the six wars Americans had fought to its date, the window is one of our nation's finest war memorials. With its fifty-eight sections stretching twenty feet wide and twenty-four feet high, it is also one of the largest in the world. Grant Wood's Memorial Masterpiece traces the compelling story of his struggle to produce this breathtaking work and how it led him to develop the unique Regionalist style for which he is recognized around the world.