Learn the story behind the facility at the Anamosa State Penitentiary Museum. [Steve Wendl] Well ... He was able to get a state of Iowa grant. We had to decide what would appeal most to folks.

No one expected it to reach the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art ... spending a couple of days in eastern Iowa. Start at the Grant Wood Art Gallery in downtown Anamosa. The gallery reveals the history ...

Explore the limestone and the landscapes that inspired Iowa's best-known artist ... Kohlsdorf] But first, we head to Anamosa, the birth place of Grant Wood, whose Depression era paintings ...

The director of the program, a former museum curator with roots in Anamosa, has praised the sculpture as an important piece of "Grant Wood Country." More: Love in the dust: Iowa gravel cyclists ...

The Grant Wood Art Gallery is a small museum devoted to the artist’s ... Of the towns I’ve wandered around in Iowa, Anamosa is definitely one of the most mysterious, not what I expected.

The Grant Wood Rest ... influence of Wood, a native son born Feb. 13, 1891 east of Anamosa, who lived most of his life in Cedar Rapids and died at the age of 51 in Iowa City.

(Rich Warren) Grant Wood, the painter whose iconic American Gothic is as widely recognized as the Mona Lisa, would have turned 125 this year. His home state of Iowa is throwing a party, and you're ...