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38: 1523: 1508: 1499: 279: 495: ... Tellingly, the curtains hanging in the windows of the house, both upstairs and down, are pulled closed in the middle of the day, a mourning custom in Victorian America. The woman wears a black dress beneath her apron, and glances away as if holding back tears. One imagines she is grieving for the man beside her." Wood had been only 10 when his father died, and later he lived for a decade "above a garage reserved for 234: 293: 484:, who revolted against the dominance of East Coast art circles. Wood was quoted in this period as stating, "All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." Wood intended the painting to depict the farmer and his daughter as survivors, to pay homage to the strength of the rural community, and to provide reassurance in a time of great economic upset. 372:. One judge deemed it a "comic valentine", but a museum patron persuaded the jury to award the painting the bronze medal and a $ 300 cash prize. The same patron also persuaded the Art Institute to buy the painting, and it remains part of the Chicago museum's collection. The image soon began to be reproduced in newspapers, first by the 487:
American art historian Wanda M. Corn thinks that Wood was not painting a modern couple, but rather one of the past, pointing to the fact that Wood directed the models to wear old-fashioned clothing which he found inspiration for by consulting his family photo album. Wood even posed the figures in a
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window of the house under the steeped roof, and the structure of the man's face. However, Wood did not add figures to his sketch until he returned to his studio in Cedar Rapids. Moreover, he would not return to Eldon again, although he did request a photograph of the home to complete his painting.
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architectural style. Sharp's brother suggested in 1973 that it was on this drive that Wood first sketched the house on the back of an envelope. Wood's earliest biographer, Darrell Garwood, noted that Wood "thought it a form of borrowed pretentiousness, a structural absurdity, to put a
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In 2023, Google released a commercial for their smartphone depicting a father and daughter recreating the scene at the original house. It also includes similar poses in numerous other settings, including in wet suits, dressed as skeletons, camping and in ski suits.
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trim to better reflect the time period. As rickrack was no longer available in stores, Nan removed trim from their mother Hattie's old dresses to apply to the apron. The model for the father was the Wood family's dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1867–1950) from
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At the time, Wood classified it as one of the "cardboardy frame houses on Iowa farms" and considered it "very paintable". After obtaining permission from the house's owners, Selma Jones-Johnston and her family, Wood made a sketch the next day in
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recalls, "the Egyptian prince Rahotep, holding the flail of Osiris, beside his wife Nufrit—strict with pious rectitude, poised in absolute dignity, mediators between heaven and earth, givers of grain, obedient to the gods."
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in his analysis of the painting in a 1978 lecture, "The Geography of the Imagination" .) Grovier suggests the small globe on the weather vane at the very top of the painting represents the dwarf planet
1771: 400:, there was a backlash. Iowans were furious at their depiction as "pinched, grim-faced, puritanical Bible-thumpers". Wood protested, saying that he had not painted a 1152: 171:, along with "the kind of people fancied should live in that house". It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter – often mistakenly assumed to be his wife. 1853: 1626: 1612: 1599: 989: 1144: 1561: 1456: 1318: 822: 323:
Wood decided to paint the house along with, in his words, "the kind of people fancied should live in that house". He recruited his sister,
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of rural small-town life. It was thus seen as part of the trend toward increasingly critical depictions of
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Corn, Wanda M.; Wood, Grant (1983). "The Birth of a National Icon: Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'".
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from the front yard. This sketch depicted a steeper roof and a longer window with a more pronounced
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way that resembled long-exposure photographs of Midwestern families that dated before World War I.
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by Melissa Gray that includes an interview with Art Institute of Chicago curator Daniel Schulman.
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report on Iowa's celebration of the centennial of Grant Wood's birth by Robin Feinsmith.
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is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely
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The Most Famous Farm Couple in the World: Why American Gothic still fascinates
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youth in Paris and grouping himself with populist Midwestern painters such as
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than on the actual house – features which eventually adorned the final work.
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is echoed in the stitching of the man's overalls and shirt, the Gothic
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Art historian Tripp Evans interpreted it in 2010 as an "old-fashioned
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spirit. Wood assisted this interpretive transition by renouncing his
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American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece
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Art critics who had favorable opinions about the painting, such as
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Dr. Byron McKeeby's contribution to Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'
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and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. The woman is dressed in a
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From 2016 to 2017, the painting was displayed in Paris at the
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Grant Wood's "Fall Plowing" Rural Historic Landscape District
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American Gothic: une mosaïque de personnalités américaines
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How Science and Tech Left an Imprint on 3 Iconic Paintings
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contains General Mills New Country Corn Flakes commercial
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American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting
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is a frequently parodied image. It has been lampooned in
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This article is about the painting. For other uses, see
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paintings of married couples, according to Davenport,
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Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the
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American Gothic (disambiguation)
A painting of a man and woman with stern expessions standing side-by-side in front of a white house. The man holds a pitch fork.
Grant Wood
Oil
beaverboard
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
painting
Grant Wood
Art Institute of Chicago
parodied
popular culture
American Gothic House
Eldon, Iowa
Nan Wood Graham
colonial
apron
Americana
overalls
suit jacket
pitchfork
mother-in-law's tongue
beefsteak begonia
Musée de l'Orangerie
Royal Academy of Arts
A portrait of a man
Grant Wood
Figge Art Museum
Grant Wood
Eldon, Iowa

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