American Gothic
Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)
1930
On view — Gallery 263 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on Beaver Board
- Dimensions
- 78 × 65.3 cm (30 3/4 × 25 3/4 in.)
- Origin
- Cedar Rapids