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Love in the Prairie State
American Gothic
Artist: Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on beaver board
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Description
In American Gothic, Grant Wood directly evoked images of an earlier generation by featuring a farmer and his daughter posed stiffly and dressed as if they were, as the artist put it, “tintypes from my old family album.” They stand outside of their home, built in an 1880s style known as Carpenter Gothic. Wood had seen a similar farmhouse during a visit to Eldon, Iowa.
When it was exhibited at the Art Institute in 1930, the painting became an instant sensation, its ambiguity prompting viewers to speculate about the figures and their story. Many understood the work to be a satirical comment on midwesterners out of step with a modernizing world. Yet Wood intended it to convey a positive image of rural American values, offering a vision of reassurance at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Upper - St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Virginia City, Storey County, 1987; Lower Wright Morris, 1941.
Thanks joeinct for the Morris photo.
American Gothic
American Gothic is a 1930 oil painting on beaverboard by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood, depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home.
Source: Wikipedia
Cord Asendorf House, The Gingerbread House @ 1921 Bull St., in Savannah, Georgia
Calvary Episcopal Church, Spartanburg County
Calvary Episcopal Church, Spartanburg County
Founded in 1848, the Calvary Episcopal Church is in the former resort town, Glenn Springs, started by John B. Glenn who had a mineral spring on his property. This Carpenter Gothic church was built in 1897. It lists as part of the Glenn Springs Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Lane-Hooven House, Hamilton, Ohio by Dan Stiver Via Flickr: This octagonal home is a truly wonderful Victorian building. It has elements of Carpenter Gothic and Tudor styles. This is from www.hamiltonfoundation.org/househistory.asp : The Lane-Hooven House was built in 1863 for Clark Lane, a Hamilton Industrialist.
