Question

Who is Grant Wood, and why did he paint the American Gothic?

Answer 1

ood was inspired to paint the American Gothic House along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." He painted it in 1930, depicting a farmer standing beside a woman who has been interpreted to be his daughter or his wife. The figures were modeled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the man is holding a pitchfork. The plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia, which are the same as the plants in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother Woman with Plants.

Answer 2

Grant (DeVolson) Wood was an american painter who was best known for painting the rural American Midwest. Wood was inspired to create the American Gothic because, he quoted, "The kind of people I fancied should live in that house". He once saw 'The Dibble House' John Sharp's brother suggested in 1937 that on the drive, he sketched the home in a back of a envelope.

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