The Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood may go down as one of rock’s greatest guitarists. Would it be so much for the man to ask that his longstanding art practice garner the same amount of critical love?

Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, ...

“I think it’s born in me that I’m an artist of the visual kind first,” said a reflective Ronnie Wood over the phone in his north London studio. “There’s nothing I enjoy doing more today than painting ...

In 1977, artist Bernard Langlais passed away, leaving his widow, Helen, to maintain their gray-shingled home and outbuildings in Cushing. His wooden sculptures still dot the property: a Trojan horse, ...

Grant Wood’s painting "American Gothic" has filled me with both pride and unease since I was a kid. I want to be a fan of Wood because he is Iowa’s most famous painter, because his family and mine ...

Mark Sfirri's ''Family Tree'' consists of 14 abstract and cartoonlike portraits grouped according to their similarities. The work is part of the exhibit, ''La Famiglia,'' at the Museum for Art in Wood ...