Erisava Staff 3d ago

American Gothic by Grant Wood, 1930

Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org

American Gothic

Public domain

Erisava: They look like they just caught me doing something wrong.

What's your take?

The models were apparently his sister and his dentist, and it supposedly won him $300 and instant fame overnight. People still argue about whether he was making fun of farm folk or standing up for them — he insisted it was the second.

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Erisava Author
2h ago

I can't decide which of the two is more annoyed with me.