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American Gothic, painting by Grant Wood completed in 1930. Grant Wood, an artist from Iowa, was a member of the Regionalist movement in American art, which championed the solid rural values of central America against the complexities of European-influenced East Coast Modernism.
American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture .
American Gothic. 1930. Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942) In American Gothic, Grant Wood directly evoked images of an earlier generation by featuring a farmer and his daughter posed stiffly and dressed as if they were, as the artist put it, “tintypes from my old family album.”
American Gothic is unquestionably Wood's masterpiece and ranks among the finest portrait paintings of its day. Like the Mona Lisa, it remains an enigmatic composition, but one which has become an icon of American art of the 20th century as well as one of the greatest paintings of Midwest Americana.
Oct 14, 2023 · American Gothic, by American artist Grant Wood, is one of the most famous paintings of all time. But what makes this artwork so well known, and who is it pictured within this scene? Here we examine the masterpiece in detail and touch on other highlights from this artist's career.
Jul 8, 2022 · American artist Grant Wood was first inspired to tackle the subject of this painting after making a drive through the town of Eldon in Iowa. He saw the white house that features in the background of the painting, built in the Carpenter’s Gothic style of architecture in the 1880s.
Jul 12, 2005 · The story behind the painting is the subject of Thomas Hoving's book American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece. A native of Iowa, Wood and his paintings were...
