American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon green and blue background absent

green and blue background absent of any detail

as the branches float against a blue sky

with tall masts and chimneys silhouetted against the sky

balancing realism with decorative elements

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

American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon green and blue background absentAmerican 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