What's the name of that famous painting of an old man & woman standing in front of a house holding pitchfork

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American Gothic

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Famous Pitchfork Painting

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AMERICAN GOTHIC

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood, from 1930. Portraying a pitchfork-holding man and a woman in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style, it is one of the most familiar images in 20th century American art. The models, who sat for the painting separately, were the artist's sister, Nan, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby. The house is located in Eldon, Iowa. The painting resides at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wood wanted to depict the traditional roles of men and women as the man is holding a pitchfork symbolizing hand labor. Wood placed plants behind the woman to convey the image of a domestic housewife.

THE STORY OF AMERICAN GOTHIC

In August of 1930, Grant Wood was visiting the town of Eldon in the southern part of Iowa when he came upon a house that would eventually make him famous. This five-room structure was built in the 1880s in a style known as Carpenter Gothic. Wood was very impressed with its compactness and strong design, particularly the Gothic Window placed in the gable.

Wood imagined a farmer and his daughter standing in front of the house. He immediately did a small sketch of his idea on brown paper and had someone take a photograph of the house so that he could work out his idea when he returned home.

Back in his studio, Wood used old Victorian photographs and 19th century portrait paintings to plan the scene he was to paint. His sister, Nan, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby, served as models and were dressed in the period clothes they are seen wearing. Even though they are seen standing together in the painting, each was painted during separate sittings.
The man was given a pitchfork to hold because Wood wanted him to be associated with haying in the 19th century rather than the more common farming practice of gardening in the 20th century. The pitchfork also symbolized masculinity, the devil and farming; and served as a compositional device to echo the ovalness of the people's faces and the repeated lines of the Gothic Window. Wood worked on the painting for two months and finished it in time to enter it into a juried exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Although the jurors were at first divided over whether to accept the painting, it eventually got into the show and even received a bronze medal and a $300.00 prize. At the time it aroused great controversy and was called by one art critic "an insulting caricature of plain country people." But, the American Gothic gradually gained acceptance and has since become one of the most popular and widely recognized paintings in America.

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It's called American Gothic and it's by Grant Wood. It can be found I think in The Art Institute of Chicago and is an example of regionalism.

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American Gothic by Grant Wood

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An American Gothic, by Grant Wood, 1930.

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_5.shtml

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Its American Gothic

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American Gothic by Grant wood i guess

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American Gothic

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american gothic by grant wood