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While his mother began to become ill, Wood moved back to Cedar Rapids in 1919. Wood made several trips to Europe between 1920 and 1928. He first went to Paris with a high-school friend, Marvin Cove, in 1920. After his first trip to Europe, Wood returned home. Then in 1923, Wood went to France to study at the Academic Julian, where he took a teaching position (Peltakian, para. 4). He returned to the U.S. in 1927 to complete a stained glass window for the Veterans Memorial Buildings. After finishing the window, Wood's final trip to Europe was to Munich, where he went to the Emil Frei Art Glass Studio to help fabricate a large stained glass window (Peltakian, para. 5).
Wood opened up a summer art colony and school in Stone City, Iowa, in 1932 with some other artists named Edward Rowan and Adrian Dornbush. He opened this place because he wanted the Midwest to be a significant art center. Eventually, Wood became the leader of a movement called the, American Regionalism (Peltakian, para. 8). Wood closed the colony after two summers to be an associate professor in the art department at the University of Iowa. Wood named a short story called, Revolt Against the City, was lead by many lectures of Regionalism. This short story was based on the comparisons between literature and Regionalist art. A few months after this happened, Wood became to be known as one of Cedar Rapids' most eligible single man (Peltakian, para. 9). .
Not only did Wood become a husband in 1935, he lost his mother. He married an actress and opera singer, Sara Maxon. While his family and friends looked down on him for marrying this lady, they finally got divorced in 1939. After this complicated part of his life, Wood was trapped in with financial debt because he forgot to pay income taxes for the past three years (Peltakian, para. 9). .
As Grant Wood became more open to people, he stated a note to a group of parents in the 1930s that came from his pathological shyness that had fueled his earlier life.
