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You can visit the Iowa home that inspired Grant Wood's famous 'American Gothic' painting
A small Iowa town of just under 800 people is home ... and the concept of "American Gothic" was born. According to the American Gothic House Center website, "Wood said he found the window amusing ...
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Why Grant Wood’s ‘American Gothic’ So Rankled Iowans
Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930 ... pictured in front of their country house (based on a real building the painter encountered in Eldon, Iowa), their faces hardened by a lifetime of labor.