Artist Grant Wood, who had a serious sweet tooth, used his dentist as the model for the painting’s pitchfork ... me some pictures of old Gothic stone carvings from a cathedral in France, and asked me ...
Nearly 91 years after 'American Gothic” wowed the world, Grant Wood's iconic 1930 painting continues to tickle viewers' fancy. Some of those viewers have left their mark on mass-produced copies of ...
What gives some works of art incredible staying power while others fade into obscurity? But as nearly a million annual visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago will tell you, the original image is ...
In 1930, Iowan artist Grant Wood painted a simple portrait of a farmer and his wife (really his dentist and sister) standing solemnly in front of an all-American farmhouse. American Gothic has since ...
Tiny Eldon in southeast Iowa has been losing population, jobs and business for nearly five decades, but one woman is trying to turn things around with a focus on tourism centered around the ...
Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. You probably recognize “American Gothic” — but it takes context to understand exactly why Grant Wood’s classic painting is so famous. In this ...
‘Fork in the Road’ by Butch Anthony on display in Sanford as part of ‘Southern Gothic’ Credit: Photo courtesy Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Jeanine Taylor’s Sanford gallery has been a shrine to Southern ...
Hong Kong-based hedge fund director Robert McCarthy was working in London in the 1990s when he bought his first medieval object. That day, the New York native was looking at furniture in an antique ...
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