ID: 700009447 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009447	Record Type: Movable Work
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American Gothic (painting (visual work); Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942); 1930; Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, Un...; 1930.934)

Note: Was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood. Inspired by a visit to small town of Eldon, Iowa; wooden farmhouse with a single oversized window was Carpenter Gothic style. "I imagined American Gothic people with their faces stretched out long to go with this American Gothic house," he said. He used his sister and his dentist as models for a farmer and his daughter, dressing them as if they were "tintypes from my old family album."

Titles:

American Gothic (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1930

Creator Display:

Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) [preferred]

painter Wood, Grant (American painter and printmaker, 1891-1942) [500031056]

Locations:

Current: Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, United States) [500304669] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1930.934

Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection

Display Materials: oil on Beaverboard

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	Beaverboard (TM) [300411325]
	.......(Brand Names Facet, Brand Names (hierarchy name), brand name materials)

	fiberboard [300014198]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 78 x 65.3 cm (30 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

portraits

Specific Subjects:

	farmers (people in agriculture) [300025607]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>) (AAT)

	Eldon [2034719]
	.....(Wapello county (county), Iowa (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	half-length figures [300047469]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	double portraits [300254374]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits, group portraits) (AAT)

	Carpenter Gothic [300107913]
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Americas| The, modern American, modern North American) (AAT)

Provenance: The artist; sold to the Art Institute, November 1930

Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right on overalls: GRANT / WOOD / 1930

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
American Gothic	........ [VP]
	........ Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access [online] (2003-) http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Art Institute of Chicago (2018-) transcribed, http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565, accessed 1 June 2018
	..... Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access [online] (2003-) Essential Guide, 2013, p. 56