American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon with two small rowboats in

with two small rowboats in the foreground against a misty background of clipper ships

green and blue background absent of any detail

with tall masts and chimneys silhouetted against the sky

or perhaps as the large uprooted tree standing as a third figure in the moonlight

But armed conflicts continued into the 1920s

American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon with two small rowboats inAmerican Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century. Wood was inspired to paint the house in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The painting's name is a word play on Carpenter Gothic, the house's architectural style. It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter often mistaken to be his wife with the symmetry of the two mimicking the shape of the unique