American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood in the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting shows a farmer standing beside a woman that has been interpreted to be either his wife or his daughter, "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house". His
biographer noted that Wood "thought it a form of borrowed
pretentiousness, a structural absurdity, to put a Gothic-style window in
such a flimsy frame house."
The figures were modeled by the artist's sister and their dentist. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity. The plants on the porchare mother-in-law's tongue and geranium, author recurrent icons.
The figures were modeled by the artist's sister and their dentist. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity. The plants on the porchare mother-in-law's tongue and geranium, author recurrent icons.
It is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture.
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