Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
1830
Grant Wood
American Gothic
Grant Wood · 1930
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- Artist
- Grant Wood
- Year
- 1930
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- American Realism
- Period
- 20th century
- Style
- Portrait
- Format
- Portrait
The best-known name of Regionalism, painting the American Midwest.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
These two aren’t husband and wife.
- The models were Wood’s sister Nan Wood Graham and his dentist Byron McKeeby. Wood said they were a farmer and his daughter.
- The house still stands in Eldon, Iowa; what caught Wood’s eye was its pointed “Gothic” upstairs window.
- In 1930 it won a bronze medal and $300 in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago, which bought it.
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