Grant Wood: A Life

R. Tripp Evans is the author of the forthcoming biography Grant Wood: A Life. The book uncovers the artist's personal life and the many ways it contradicted his public image. Wood's American Gothic and scenes of farmlands and folklore represented traditional values and a simple, agrarian life. In contrast, Woods himself was ambivalent about religion, had idiosyncratic relations with family and spent most of his life hiding his homosexuality. Tripp Evans teaches American art and architecture at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He holds a PhD in art history from Yale. Two of Grant Wood's largest murals were installed at Iowa State's Parks Library in 1934.