Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' (1930) depicts a Midwestern farmer (the artist's dentist) and his daughter (his sister) posing in front of a small Gothic Revival farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa, the man gripping a pitchfork. The painting crystallised the self-image of the Midwestern smallholder at the start of the Depression and has become one of the most reproduced images in American art. The original is at the Art Institute of Chicago; related studies, prints, and parodies are dispersed among regional museums.

Exhibition Venue

Figge Art Museum

Davenport, United States