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Nan Wood Graham (July 26, – December 14, ) was an American artist and art teacher.

She was the sister of painter Grant Wood. She is best known as the model for the woman in her brother's most famous painting, American Gothic Graham was born on July 26, , on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa. Her parents were Francis M. She was 16 months of age when her father, who was a farmer, died. She then moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with her mother and brothers, moving six times within Iowa in all during her mother's life.

Once the money earned from the farm was depleted, her brother Grant supported Graham and their mother financially.

Nan Wood Graham (July 26, – December 14, ) was the sister of painter Grant Wood.

Graham attended high school in Cedar Rapids and then business college. She married real estate broker and investor Edward Graham in She exhibited her artwork in Iowa art salons and New York. The animal pictures that she painted and showed in New York were often used on ornaments, screens, decorative panels, play-rooms, and more. Graham wrote a story about herself in an issue of the magazine Coronet.

Graham traveled throughout the United States with her husband and then they later traveled worldwide. They decided to live in Riverside, California, and Edward entered the real estate business there. After her husband died in , Graham moved into a house that was close to their old one. In , she was nearing blindness and moved to a nursing home, later dying there on December 14,