The president of the Art Institute of Chicago will return to work after the end of an probe into his alleged conduct during a ...

The Met’s selection—from a private collection amassed by the American photography dealer William L. Schaeffer, and now a ...

If you look up at Art Deco buildings or Gothic Revival churches in southeast Michigan, you’ll see works of art like gargoyles ...

“Salute to American Gothic” is the theme of this year’s Redlands Festival of Arts, running 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 24 and 25 in ...

His “American Gothic,” 2024, follows a lineage of American art history. From Grant Wood’s engrossingly weird 1930 portrait of a sullen Midwestern farming couple to Gordon Parks’s 1942 ...

Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter ...

Traditional Gothic art found its iconography in the derelict artifacts of ... Through Mitchum’s performance and the atmosphere that taps into a deep dread built into the American South, “The Night of ...

Wood’s inspiration for American Gothic was sparked by a leisurely drive around Eldon, Iowa, one spring afternoon in the company of a young art student, John Sharp. Just outside town, they ...

"American Gothic" is a famous piece of artwork by Iowa ... Iowa, according to the Art Institute of Chicago's website. The painting was completed by Wood in 1930. Upon completion, Wood submitted ...

Julie Aronson's story of how Grant Wood's iconic "American Gothic" came to be at the Cincinnati Art Museum this fall is a lesson in not censoring yourself while brainstorming. "This is something I ...

Grant Wood, one of Iowa's most famous artists, based his iconic 1930 painting, "American Gothic," on a unique home in the small town of Eldon, on the banks of the Des Moines River in southeastern ...