Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter, pictured in ...

What gives some works of art incredible staying power while others fade into obscurity? But as nearly a million annual visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago will tell you, the original image is ...

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Before the Cleveland Museum of Art started its $350 million expansion and renovation in 2005, the galleries that housed Islamic art and late Gothic and Renaissance art from Europe were downright ...

Tiny Eldon in southeast Iowa has been losing population, jobs and business for nearly five decades, but one woman is trying to turn things around with a focus on tourism centered around the ...

Nearly 91 years after 'American Gothic” wowed the world, Grant Wood's iconic 1930 painting continues to tickle viewers' fancy. Some of those viewers have left their mark on mass-produced copies of ...

A new exhibit opens this week at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art featuring some of the many parodies of the painting “American Gothic.” The most famous work by Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood is ...

In 1930, Iowan artist Grant Wood painted a simple portrait of a farmer and his wife (really his dentist and sister) standing solemnly in front of an all-American farmhouse. American Gothic has since ...

On the long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany’s greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Falling in love with travel every day. Who were these two farm figures — and what was their relationship? Many people assume that ...

It's one of the most widely parodied paintings in American culture. And now Grant Wood's iconic American Gothic painting has received the Amy Schumer treatment - after the comedian and actor JK ...