While there, she was influenced by American landscape painter Grant Wood, who urged students to work with the subjects they knew best.
After an S curve that takes the road to the south and then back east, the highway passes Antioch School, which Iowa painter Grant Wood attended for four years.
She later expanded to creating other sculptures, including Garth Brooks, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Peanuts characters, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, American Gothic by Grant Wood and the Last Supper.
The cover art is a parody of the famous painting American Gothic by Grant Wood.
As a contemporary cultural icon, The Singing Butler has been compared to Grant Wood's American Gothic.
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The collection stresses significant American artistic movements, including regionalism (with paintings by Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton) and Abstract Expressionism (with work by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, and Helen Frankenthaler) and Pop Art (with work by George Segal and Tom Wesselmann).
In the 1930s Isabel studied under Grant Wood at the Stone City, Iowa Art Colony.