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American Gothic

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Oil on beaverboard by Grant Wood, 1930. A farmer and his daughter posed in front of a Carpenter Gothic farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa. One of the most recognizable images in American art.

Scholarly Significance

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Notes

·Held at the Art Institute of Chicago (Friends of American Art Collection, 1930).
·The figures are Wood's dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby and his sister Nan Wood Graham; not a husband and wife.
·Won a bronze medal at the Art Institute's exhibition 1930.