120 Grant Wood American Gothic, 1930 Oil on beaver...

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TitleAmerican Gothic

Creator nameWood, Grant

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1930

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on beaverboard

Dimensions29 7/8 × 24 7/8 in. (76 × 63.3 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565

Accession number1930.934

SubjectsFarmers in artPainting, American--20th centuryRegionalism (Art movement)

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Epilogue: American Gothic; Or, Death by Landscape

Aaron Sachs

Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

In the course of the nineteenth century bourgeois society has, by means of hygienic and social, private and public institutions, realized a secondary effect which may have been its subconscious main purpose: to make it possible for people to avoid the sight of the dying. Dying was once a public process in the life of the individual, and a most exemplary one; think...

Author

Aaron Sachs

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.347-368

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23878&redirecttoanchor=19361

Chapter subject tags:Cemeteries--United States--History--20th centuryEnvironmentalism--United States--History--20th centuryHorticulture--HistoryMumford, Lewis, 1895-1990Wood, Grant, 1891-1942. American Gothic

7. Prosperity and Depression, 1918–1939

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

In overview, the period from 1918 to 1939 presents a neat package. It is bracketed by world wars and bifurcated by the stock market crash of 1929, with an economic expansion during the 1920s on one side and the Great Depression of the 1930s on the other. On closer view, the story is less easily told.

Author

John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.294-343

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.008

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Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--In artArts and societyModernism (Art)African American artists

6. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Selected Themes in Western Art since 1900

Howard R. Lamar

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

In her perceptive chapter “ ‘Curious Historical Artistic Data’: Art History and Western American Art,” Nancy K. Anderson quotes Henry Tuckerman, an early chronicler of American art, as saying: “It is in our...

Author

Howard R. Lamar

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.167-190

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15736&redirecttoanchor=19361

Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artArt, American--20th CenturyArt and societyLandscape changesInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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