Grant Wood, one of Iowa's most famous artists, based his iconic 1930 painting, "American Gothic," on a unique home in the small town of Eldon, on the banks of the Des Moines River in southeastern ...
His “American Gothic,” 2024, follows a lineage of American art history. From Grant Wood’s engrossingly weird 1930 portrait of a sullen Midwestern farming couple to Gordon Parks’s 1942 ...