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Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930), Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's best known work is his 1930 painting American Gothic, [14] which is also one of the most famous paintings in American art, [13] and one of the few images to reach the status of widely recognized cultural icon, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The ...
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Pages in category "Paintings by Grant Wood" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. American Gothic;
While her paintings are not overtly Christian—she was an avowed communist—they certainly contain elements of the macabre Mexican Christian style of religious paintings. Grant Wood, 1930, Social Realism. American Gothic portrays a pitchfork-holding farmer and a younger woman in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style.
After Arnold Comes of Age was completed, Wood entered it into the 1930, Iowa State Fair Art Salon. [5] Wood was well-established at the time and had earlier exhibited at galleries in Paris . [ 5 ] However, as a regionalist committed to promoting the artistic movement, he decided to show Arnold Comes of Age and other paintings in Iowa instead. [ 5 ]
The American Gothic House, also known as the Dibble House, is a house in Eldon, Iowa, designed in the Carpenter Gothic style with a distinctive upper window. [3] It was the backdrop of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood, generally considered Wood's most famous work and among the most recognized paintings in twentieth century American art.
Artists of the Stone City Art Colony, 1932 An artist at his easel, 1932. The Stone City Art Colony was an art colony founded by Edward Rowan, Adrian Dornbush, and Grant Wood. The colony gathered on the John A. Green Estate in Stone City, Iowa during the summers of 1932 and 1933.
Paintings by Grant Wood (7 P) Pages in category "Grant Wood" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...