"episode ""The Masterpiece"", marketing campaigns, pornography, and by couples who recreate the image by facing a camera, one of them holding a pitchfork or other object in its place. American Gothic American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the ""American Gothic"" House in Eldon, Iowa, along with ""the kind of people I fancied should live in that house."" It depicts a farmer standing beside a woman who has been interpreted to be his sister. The figures were modeled by"
"Grant Wood Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly ""American Gothic"" (1930), which has become an iconic painting of the 20th century. Wood was born in rural Iowa, 4 mi (6 km) east of Anamosa, in 1891. His mother moved the family to Cedar Rapids, after his father died in 1901. Soon thereafter, Wood began as an apprentice in a local metal shop. After graduating from Washington High School, Wood enrolled in The Handicraft Guild, an art school run entirely by women"
"Spring Side Spring Side is a historic residence located just outside of Bellevue, Iowa, United States. The house was influenced by the Gothic Revival ""cottage"" popularized by A.J. Davis and A.J. Downing. It is sited on a hillside overlooking a valley and the Mississippi River. The property is the source for three springs, hence its name from 1867. Constructed in 1848 for William T. Wynkoop, a local businessman, the 2½-story stone building features steeply pitched gables trimmed with wooden scroll-work vergeboard and pendants with finials, and a gabled tower with the same decorative elements and lancet arch windows. Native limestone"
"is its primary construction material. The house originally had a wraparound porch that was removed. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Spring Side Spring Side is a historic residence located just outside of Bellevue, Iowa, United States. The house was influenced by the Gothic Revival ""cottage"" popularized by A.J. Davis and A.J. Downing. It is sited on a hillside overlooking a valley and the Mississippi River. The property is the source for three springs, hence its name from 1867. Constructed in 1848 for William T. Wynkoop, a local businessman, the 2½-story stone building features"
"was hired in 1940, along with eight other prominent American artists, to document and interpret dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film ""The Long Voyage Home"", a cinematic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays. Grant Wood Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly ""American Gothic"" (1930), which has become an iconic painting of the 20th century. Wood was born in rural Iowa, 4 mi (6 km) east of Anamosa, in 1891. His mother moved the family to Cedar Rapids, after"
"Ames. ""Wood's portrait of the pioneer, John D. Turner, won first prize at the Iowa state fair last year, and his House in Munich, exhibited here last fall, won the first prize offered last year by the Iowa Federation of Women's clubs. Adam is a Peabody prize winner at the Art Institute in Chicago."" Two months after the show, Wood painted his iconic ""American Gothic"". One-man show in November. 220 North Michigan Avenue. Four young Chicago artists: Karl Brandner, Wilbur Adam, Gasper Ruffolo and C. Warner Williams (a sculptor). Wilbur G. Adam Retrospective. ""Wilbur Adam is an old-fashioned portraitist, presently"
"American Thing: 1915-1935"" opened September 17, 2005, and featured major works from early American Modernists. The Figge Art Museum currently houses the University of Iowa Museum of Art collection, after the University of Iowa's gallery was flooded in 2008. The collection, which totals over 12,000 works, includes significant paintings by American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Golfinopoulos, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, and Marsden Hartley, as well as European artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Lyonel"
"Stone City, Iowa (painting) Stone City, Iowa is a 1930 painting by the American artist Grant Wood. It depicts the former boomtown of Stone City, Iowa. It was Wood's first major landscape painting. It is a study of a real place with which Wood was thoroughly familiar, but the landscape has been given fantastical curvy shapes, the trees are ornamental, and the bright surfaces are artificially patterned. The town had been built for its limestone quarries. When the painting was made, the town was in rapid decline due to the development of Portland cement. The painting thus depicts the transition"
"Academy, the Vogue School of Fashion and Design, and eventually the Chicago Art Institute. In the 1930s Isabel studied under Grant Wood at the Stone City, Iowa Art Colony. Grant Wood is most commonly known for his work of art, ""American Gothic"". Isabel's future husband, John Bloom, was at that same camp, also working with Grant Wood. Together John and Grant worked on painting murals for the Des Moines Library and the Iowa State University library. Isabel was locally and nationally know artist and sculptor. She founded her sculpture business , Isabel Bloom, in Davenport, Iowa. Making the sculptures always"
"Miriam Ibling Miriam Ibling (February 17, 1895–November 9, 1985) was an American muralist who worked on art projects for the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture creating public art in Minnesota. Her lithograph ""Sheep Resting"" is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Anne Miriam Christine Iblings was born on February 17, 1895 in Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa to Anna (née Paul) and Christopher Iblings. After graduating from Sioux Falls Baptist College, Ibling attended the Minneapolis School of Art, studying three years under Cameron Booth. She then studied for a year at the University"
"Iowa. She graduated from University High School and later attended the University of Iowa for both her undergraduate and masters degrees. In 1939, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Iowa, having earned a B.A in Art, Art History, and Botany. She then went on to get an M.A in Art and Art History in 1940. During her time at Iowa, she studied under Grant Wood, painter of ""American Gothic"". In 1995, Briggs received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Iowa. After graduating from the University of Iowa, Shirley Briggs briefly taught art at North Dakota"
"early 1950s. Ibling died on November 9, 1985 in Monterey, Monterey County, California. Miriam Ibling Miriam Ibling (February 17, 1895–November 9, 1985) was an American muralist who worked on art projects for the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture creating public art in Minnesota. Her lithograph ""Sheep Resting"" is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Anne Miriam Christine Iblings was born on February 17, 1895 in Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa to Anna (née Paul) and Christopher Iblings. After graduating from Sioux Falls Baptist College, Ibling attended the Minneapolis School of Art, studying three"
"currently processing the collection. The following is an incomplete list, sorted by location, of Connick stained glass works in the United States. Video Charles Jay Connick Charles Jay Connick (1875–1945) was a prominent American painter, muralist, and designer best known for his work in stained glass in the Gothic Revival style. Born in Springboro, Pennsylvania, Connick eventually settled in the Boston area where he opened his studio in 1913. Connick's work is contained in many preeminent churches and chapels, including examples in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. He also authored the book,"
"along with his mother, and as a studio. It was here at #5 Turner Alley that he painted two of his most famous paintings, ""American Gothic"" (1930) and ""Stone City"" (1930). Wood also worked as a decorator when he lived here and designed the interior of the main house when it was converted into a funeral home. His work included two stained glass windows that flank the main entrance. Several Wood paintings also hung in the funeral home. The house is a 2½-story, brick Georgian Revival structure. It features a symmetrical facade and a hipped roof with three gable dormers."
"inspiration came from Eldon, southern Iowa, where a cottage designed in the Gothic Revival style with an upper window in the shape of a medieval pointed arch provided the background and also the painting's title. Wood decided to paint the house along with ""the kind of people I fancied should live in that house."" The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter, figures modeled by the artist's sister, Nan (1900–1990), and his dentist. Wood's sister insisted that the painting depicts the farmer's daughter and not wife, disliking suggestions it was the farmer's wife, since that would mean that"
"collections from several prominent Iowa artists. The museum displays temporary exhibitions of contemporary art and hold the world's largest collection of works by Grant Wood, Marvin Cone, and Bertha Jaques, works by Mauricio Lasansky and the Riley Collection of ancient Roman portrait busts. The Grant Wood collection includes his paintings “Woman with Plants” and “Young Corn.” In 2002, the CRMA was given the building that houses the original studio of Grant Wood. Located just three blocks from the Museum, the loft studio, known by its fictitious address of 5 Turner Alley, was designed and constructed by Wood, who lived and"
"Charles Jay Connick Charles Jay Connick (1875–1945) was a prominent American painter, muralist, and designer best known for his work in stained glass in the Gothic Revival style. Born in Springboro, Pennsylvania, Connick eventually settled in the Boston area where he opened his studio in 1913. Connick's work is contained in many preeminent churches and chapels, including examples in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. He also authored the book, ""Adventures in Light and Color"" in 1937. Connick's studio continued to operate, and remained a leading producer of stained glass, until 1986. Born"
"Marie Goth Jessie Marie Goth (August 15, 1887, Indianapolis - January 9, 1975) was an American painter from Indianapolis, Indiana. Best known for her portraiture, Goth was the first woman to paint an official portrait of an Indiana governor (Henry F. Schricker) that was installed in the Indiana Statehouse. Goth became a full-time resident of Nashville, Indiana, in the 1920s and was active in its Brown County Art Colony. She became a charter member and former president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926 and a cofounder of the Brown County Art Guild in 1954. Goth died from"
"Grant Wood's ""Fall Plowing"" Rural Historic Landscape District Grant Wood's ""Fall Plowing"" Rural Historic Landscape District is a historic district near Viola, Iowa. A date of significance for the district is 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The district includes four contributing buildings and one other contributing site. This historic district is the location where Grant Wood sketched for his 1931 painting ""Fall Plowing"". The painting is one of Wood's regional works that features the agrarian life of rural Iowa. The district includes four buildings that Wood depicted in the painting, including two"
"in Minneapolis in 1910 (now a prominent artist collective in the city). He is said to have later returned to the Guild to paint ""American Gothic"". A year later, Wood returned to Iowa, where he taught in a rural one-room schoolhouse. In 1913, he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and performed some work as a silversmith. From 1922 to 1928, Wood made four trips to Europe, where he studied many styles of painting, especially Impressionism and post-Impressionism. However, it was the work of the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck that influenced him to take"
"spring wagon and led through town. Some vandalism also occurred during World War II, including yellow paint smeared on the parsonage. The house is a two-story frame structure that is covered with stucco. It was designed in the Prairie School style by Bloomington, Illinois architect A.T. Simmons. He designed the neighboring Iowa Yearly Meeting House-College Avenue Friends Church three years previous. Completed in 1915, it is a single-family house that features a gable-end facade, concrete block foundation, several ribbon windows, and a wrap-around front porch with a gable-end roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in"
"collections. Gaul's farm in Van Buren County now is a part of Fall Creek Falls State Park, which has a designated Gilbert Gaul Trail. Gilbert Gaul (artist) William Gilbert Gaul (1855–1919) was a late 19th and early 20th century American painter and illustrator of military subjects ranging from the American Civil War to World War I, as well as American Western vistas and scenes. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on March 31, 1855 to George W. and Cornelia A. (Gilbert) Gaul, he attended school in Newark, and at the Claverack Military Academy. In New York, he began studying art"
"Byron and Ivan Boyd House The Byron and Ivan Boyd House, also known as Boyd Cottage, is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Built in 1924, the 2½-story Tudor Revival half-timbered cottage is located in an up-scale neighborhood. The neighborhood is composed of large private residential lots with numerous mansions built in the first half of the 20th-century for the city's prominent citizens. Its significance is its association with Byron Bennett Boyd. He was a local architect, and a nationally recognized artist and painter. Boyd was the architect that designed this house, and lived here from"
"the regional New Hope group. Later, Sotter became a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, 1910-1919. George Sotter George W. Sotter (1879 – 1953) was an American painter best known for Impressionist-style works. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but eventually made his name in Philadelphia. He is also known for his work in stained glass, some of which are still installed in numerous churches. In the August 5, 2006 episode of ""Antiques Roadshow"" on PBS, filmed in Philadelphia, a Sotter oil painting was appraised at $120,000 to $180,000, much to the delight of its visibly"
"of European abstraction. Wood was one of three artists most associated with the movement. The others, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, returned to the Midwest in the 1930s due to Wood's encouragement and assistance with locating teaching positions for them at colleges in Wisconsin and Missouri, respectively. Along with Benton, Curry, and other Regionalist artists, Wood's work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York for many years. Wood is considered the patron artist of Cedar Rapids, and his childhood country school is depicted on the 2004 Iowa State Quarter. Wood's best known work is his 1930"
"City in 1941, and he served in the United States Army during World War II until 1946. Schwiering became a painter in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1947, and he opened a gallery in the Wort Hotel the following year. One of his mentors was Clifford Hansen, who subsequently served as the Governor of Wyoming. Schwiering did paintings of Wyoming landscapes, including the Tetons. He also painted in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and in Mexico. Schwiering was a regionalist, a realist, and an impressionist. His work was exhibited at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma. Schwiering was a"
"Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Wiggins's son, Guy Arthur Wiggins, is also a painter. Guy C. Wiggins Guy Carleton Wiggins NA (February 23, 1883 – April 25, 1962) was an American impressionist painter. He was the president of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of the Old Lyme Art Colony. He did many paintings of New York City's snowy streets, landmarks and towering skyscrapers during winter. Wiggins was born on February 23, 1883 in Brooklyn. His father Carleton Wiggins was an accomplished artist who gave his son his first training as a"
"on the National Register of Historic Places. More information can be found on AskArt.com. Archives of American Art Mathias Alten Mathias Alten (1871–1938) was a German- American impressionist painter active in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mathias Joseph Alten worked as an artist between 1890 and 1938. Although best known for his land- and seascapes he was also an accomplished portrait, floral, and animal painter. William H. Gerdts, a pre-eminent authority on American regional painting, describes Alten's style as that of a ""second-generation Impressionist."" Alten studied at the acclaimed Académie Julian and at the Académie Colarossi where he won a gold medal"
"Revival architecture in its pure form and setting in the Midwest. A Springfield, IL, attorney named Abraham Lincoln was among Springside's early guests. Henry Roling House ""c.1840"" 36170 308th Street, Bellevue The Rolings came from Ankrum, Germany about 1833 and lived in a log home which stood in the farmyard until this stone house was finished. The floor plan is similar to the home of this countryman and fellow parishioner, Theodore Niemann, with the layout reversed. Theodore Niemann Home & Springhouse ""1845"" 35032 308th Street, Bellevue The 1879 ""History of Jackson County, Iowa"" states that ""this residence is the first"
"Mary-Austin Klein Mary-Austin Klein (born 1964 in San Bernardino, California) is an American landscape painter best known for her small-scaled and highly detailed paintings[1] of the southwestern United States. Klein's work continues the Impressionist tradition of early California fine artists like William Wendt and George Gardner who explored the west at the behest of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, exchanging paintings for rides. Like these early California artists, Klein’s oil paintings celebrate the bright, colorful light of the southwest. In his blog, ""Made in Frogtown"", the artist and former newsman William Lagattuta notes her “""ability to""... ""reduce enormous, powerful landscapes"
"the WPA grant. It focuses primarily on artists from Iowa and the greater Midwest, with a smaller collection of work by national and international artists that focuses on regional concerns with landscape. The collection includes work by: Thomas Hart Benton, Dale Chihuly, John Steuart Curry, Salvador Dalí, John Henry, John Himmelfarb, Jun Kaneko, Käthe Kollwitz, Robert Motherwell, Charles Logasa, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Philip Pearlstein, Bridget Riley, Jerry Uelsmann, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Grant Wood. The Sioux City Art Center has one of Grant Wood's ""Corn Room"" murals . It is one of four murals commissioned in 1927 by"
"George Loring Brown George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. Brown spent much of his life abroad, and the motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is nothing specifically American about them either in treatment or sentiment. Among the best are ""Sunset in Genoa"" (1875), ""Doges' Palace and Grand Canal,"" ""Bay of Naples,"" ""Niagara Falls"
"Robert Wesley Amick Robert Wesley Amick (1879-1969) was an American painter, illustrator and teacher who specialized in romantic paintings of the early western history of the United States. Amick studied at the Art Students' League of New York and the Yale School of Fine Art. He is best known for his American Old West art but painted equine, landscape and genre art of both eastern and western scenes during the Arts and Crafts era. He is perhaps best known for twelve paintings of the American West (including ""Where the Sun Goes"") that were widely reproduced in art prints for use"