Painting of the Week: American Gothic

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We discuss perhaps the most iconic and parodied American painting of the 20th century, Grant Wood’s American Gothic.

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Art Institute of Chicago
American Art, Gallery 263

"American Gothic "

by Grant Wood

Empathic Image, or Dangerous Ideology? Overrated? How American Gothic became an icon