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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 .
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.
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.
Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.
Grant Wood is known for his stylized and subtly humorous scenes of rural people, Iowa cornfields, and mythic subjects from American history—such as the Art Institute’s iconic painting American Gothic (1930).
Currently hanging right next to American Gothic is a painting called Haunted House by Morris Kantor. This was also painted in 1930, the same year that Grant Wood painted American Gothic, though not many people have heard of Morris Kantor.
It was painted in 1930, when US artists were inspired to paint realist scenes of rural America during the Depression, rejecting European modernist influences for a decidedly home-grown, often...
Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, via the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood made this painting at the beginning of the Great Depression and he argued that one of his main aims was to create a reassuring image of stability and security during a time of nationalized disruption.
Dr. Beth Harris: [0:09] We’re looking at Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” from 1930, which, more than any other painting, has come to represent America and middle America and small-town America for many people.
Grant Wood (1891-1942) is one of the prominent figures of the American Regionalism movement. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry, Wood developed a realistic style of painting that became popular during the Great Depression (1929-1939).