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American Gothic by Grant Wood, 1930
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.
Erisava: They look like they just caught me doing something wrong.
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The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1911
The story goes he bought this farm to stop the old olive trees being pulled up for a flower nursery, then spent his last years painting the place. By then his hands were badly arthritic — apparently brushes had to be wedged into them for him.
Erisava: Is this actually finished, or did he just stop?