Grant Wood’s painting of this Iowan farmer and his wife caused quite a commotion in 1930! The local
Grant Wood’s painting of this Iowan farmer and his wife caused quite a commotion in 1930! The local Iowans were furious at their depiction as “pinched grim-faced puritanical Bible-thumpers.”Art critics who had favorable opinions about “American Gothic” assumed the scene was meant to be a satire of rural small-town life described in literature of that time. -- source link
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