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American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
A Connemara Girl is an early 1870s painting by the Irish artist Augustus Nicholas Burke (July 28, 1838 – 1891). [1] One of the most identifiable paintings in Ireland, it depicts a young girl in traditional Connemara attire carrying a bundle near the shore. It is one of many paintings Burke created of daily life around his native Connemara.
This painting was one of forty selected for her to tell her story in her own words in the book Grandma Moses American Primitive: "Away back in 1840, the farms were large, and they had many hired men, to till the land, as they raised all of their food, such as wheat, corn, oats, rhy [sic] and buckwheat and lots of lifestock [sic], horses, cows ...
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