American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon and displayed at the Galerie

and displayed at the Galerie Belvedere in Vienna until it was returned in 2006 to one of Ferdinand's nieces

as the branches float against a blue sky

with tall masts and chimneys silhouetted against the sky

green and blue background absent of any detail

American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon and displayed at the GalerieAmerican Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century. Wood was inspired to paint the house in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The painting's name is a word play on Carpenter Gothic, the house's architectural style. It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter often mistaken to be his wife with the symmetry of the two mimicking the shape of the unique