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An exhibit at Smithsonian's Archives of American Art investigates the relationship between artists and their models. The stern woman in Grant Wood's American Gothic? That was actually his sister, Nan.


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The models for 'American Gothic' pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942 Nan Wood Graham and Dr. Byron McKeeby in the Gallery at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, September 1942. Grant Wood's "American Gothic" shows the images of a man and a woman standing in front of a small wooden house.


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American Gothic has become so famous as an image that many people don't realize that it actually was—and still is—a painting. In their minds, it is no longer an object. In some ways, the idea of an original has become degraded in our digital era.


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Early pencil sketch of American Gothic by Grant Wood, featuring the farmer holding a rake instead of a pitchfork, and the caption of "American Gothic" at the bottom. (© Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY)


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American Gothic has become an American icon, but Regionalism itself would never be thought of as a significant movement in the canon of US art history. Wood must have learnt all about.


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American Gothic is an iconic painting that has come to represent small-town middle America. In the years since its creation, it has been interpreted in many different ways. Many aspects of the painting create general, universal forms that lean towards the geometric. It allows the painting to feel both real and symbolic at the same time.


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By Google Arts & Culture. American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) The Art Institute of Chicago. Any list of America's best-known oil paintings must feature Grant Wood's 1930 'American Gothic'. Initially, Wood only received a bronze medal (along with a $300 prize) for his masterwork at Chicago's 1930 Exhibition of Art.


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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." They stand outside of their home, built in an 1880s style known as Carpenter Gothic.


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Superficially simple and naive, American Gothic is rich in visual puns and echoes—for example between the pitchfork and the bib of the farmer's overalls, and the pinnacle on the house visually repeating the church spire in the far distance.


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Grant Wood (1891-1942), American Gothic, 1930. Oil on Beaver Board. The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA/Friends of American Art Collection/Bridgeman Images By the mid-1930s, reproductions of Wood's suddenly famous little picture were to be found hanging in homes from Long Island to Los Angeles and everywhere in between.


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1. American Gothic was instantly a big hit. American Gothic was submitted to the 1930 annual exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it won a bronze medal and a $300 prize. But.


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American Gothic is a painting by American artist Grant Wood in 1930. Shown is a farmer and his spinster daughter in front of their house. The models on the painting were Wood's sister, Nan, wearing a colonial print apron mimicking 19th century Americana, and Wood's dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby from Iowa.


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"When American Gothic was first shown in 1930, there were critics who said that she looked like the missing link, that her face would turn milk sour," says Wood biographer R. Tripp Evans. The.


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Apr 29, 2019 Ian Harvey Most of us are familiar with the painting called American Gothic. The painting shows the images of a man and a woman standing in front of a small wooden house. She is in her apron, he's holding a pitchfork, and both of them are standing a bit stiffly and look a little grim.


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29 1/4 x 24 5/8 in. (74.3 x 62.4 cm) Friends of American Art Collection. Acquired in 1930. Grant Wood, American, 1891-1942, American Gothic, 1930, oil on beaverboard, 74.3 x 62.4 cm, Friends of.


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Let's look through some of the core reasons that drove Wood to make this enduring painting that continues to be a subject of fascination. 1. American Gothic Illustrated the Style of Carpenter's Gothic Architecture. Grant Wood's American Gothic, 1930, (left), and the real house in Eldon, Iowa (right) that inspired the painting, via the.