He used the Egyptian pyramids as the backdrop for his Shrine Quartet, one of many lithographs he produced in his later years.
He used the Egyptian pyramids as the backdrop for his Shrine Quartet, one of many lithographs he produced in his later years. His essay "Revolt Against the City" criticized abstract painting and French artistic influence, while he himself was influenced by Northern medieval art, as his Young Corn shows. He explored folk stories about George Washington in Parson Weems' Fable and made a controversial painting that showed another artist's famous painting of George Washington hanging on the wall behind three smug, ghastly old ladies. FTP, name this Iowa-born regionalist painter of Daughters of the Revolution, who had his sister and dentist pose in front of a farmhouse for American Gothic.
He used the Egyptian pyramids as the backdrop for his Shrine Quartet, one of many lithographs he produced in his later years.
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