Grant DeVolson Wood. An American painter. Born in 1891, died in 1942.

This man has produced a series of extremely different, in my opinion, paintings. His way of painting is very particular, and even more peculiar is the different feelings I personally feel when watching those paintings of his portraing people, or landscapes. 

His landscapes are absolutely marvelous, it's like is actually possible to feel the heat radiating from the sunset's rays, or the chill of the night. 

("Near sundown")

("City Iowa")

("Hoover Wood")

("The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere")

But when it comes to portraits, that's a different story. Perfect, silky, but still, there is something extremely annoying, extremely wrong, in those faces, in their clothes, in their posture. I can't define it, but it's there. And I would never want one of those faces staring at me from a wall. 

("American Gothic")

("Arnold Comes of Age")