American Gothic


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American Gothic

Grant Wood’s painting of stern Iowan farming couple. [Am. Art: Osborne, 1215]
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com, 'Whistler's Mother' is one of the most famous American paintings outside the United States, whose appeal is easily comparable to the global cultural popularity of works like The Scream, Mona Lisa and American Gothic.
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Greg Newbold's chameleon-like artistry shows us Roy Lichtenstein's snow hero saving the day, Georgia O'Keefe's snowman blooming in the desert, Claude Monet's snowmen among haystacks, Grant Wood's American Gothic snowman, Jackson Pollock's snowman in ten thousand splats, Salvador Dali's snowmen dripping like melty cheese, and snowmen as they might have been rendered by J.
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This coming-of-age tale is crafted in a New American Gothic style that is impeccable in its execution.
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While her work usually falls with the American Gothic tradition, she sometimes slips the bonds of all genres.
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In American Gothic, Wood painted a couple posed in front of a house in Eldon, Iowa.
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American Pie: Buttery Good Pie Recipes and Bold Tales from the American Gothic House is a distinctive pie cookbook from author Beth Howard, who has made pies at California's Malibu Kitchen for celebrities, owns the famous American Gothic house in Iowa, and runs the "Pitchfork Pie Stand" from the house's parlor every summer.
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