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Inspired by a Midwestern farmhouse, who created American Gothic, the iconic painting of a farmer and his stern-faced daughter?
The models for the farmer and daughter in American Gothic were Grant Wood's sister Nan and his dentist Byron McKeeby.
The background of American Gothic shows a real Carpenter Gothic house now preserved as a museum in which Midwestern state?
The American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, built in 1882, inspired Grant Wood's 1930 painting and has been preserved as a museum since 1991.
A symbol of rural life, what tool does the farmer hold in Grant Wood's American Gothic, housed in a Chicago museum?
The pitchfork in Grant Wood's American Gothic symbolizes the stoic resilience of Midwestern farmers, modeled after a three-tined hay fork common in 1930s Iowa agriculture.
In Grant Wood's American Gothic, his dentist posed as the farmer. Who posed as the woman in colonial dress?
Grant Wood's sister, Nan Wood Graham, posed as the woman in American Gothic, dressed in a colonial-style gown to depict a Midwestern farmer's daughter rather than a wife.
American Gothic, a key work of Regionalism depicting heartland values, is displayed in which renowned Chicago art institution?
American Gothic, painted by Grant Wood in 1930, won a third-place prize at the Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition, leading the museum to purchase it for its permanent collection.