American Gothic  1930

by Grant Wood

This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood. The impetus for the painting came while Wood was visiting the small town of Eldon in his native Iowa. There he spotted a little wood farmhouse, with a single oversized window, made in a style called Carpenter G...
Size: 
78 x 65.3 cm (30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on Beaver Board
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago