Though this 1930 painting won a bronze medal in an exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute, the exhibition chairman called it a "comic valentine" and Iowans viewed it as an attack on their small-town values.
Though this 1930 painting won a bronze medal in an exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute, the exhibition chairman called it a "comic valentine" and Iowans viewed it as an attack on their small-town values. The house was chosen for its windows which resembled those in a European cathedral, and the artist's sister and his dentist modeled for the farmer and his wife in the foreground. For ten points, identify this much parodied Grant Wood painting depicting rural life.
Though this 1930 painting won a bronze medal in an exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute, the exhibition chairman called it a "comic valentine" and Iowans viewed it as an attack on their small-town values.
{American Gothic}