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1930

Grant Forest
American, 1891–1942

In American Gothic, Grant Wood directly evoked images of an earlier generation by featuring a farmer and his daughter posed stiffly and dressed every bit if they were, as the artist put information technology, "tintypes from my former family album." They stand outside of their home, built in an 1880s style known as Carpenter Gothic. Wood had seen a similar farmhouse during a visit to Eldon, Iowa.

When it was exhibited at the Art Institute in 1930, the painting became an instant sensation, its ambiguity prompting viewers to speculate about the figures and their story. Many understood the work to be a satirical comment on midwesterners out of step with a modernizing world. Yet Wood intended it to convey a positive image of rural American values, offering a vision of reassurance at the outset of the Great Depression.

Status: On View, Gallery 263
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Grant Forest
Title: American Gothic
Identify: United States (Object fabricated in)
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Beaver Board
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right on overalls: GRANT / Wood / 1930
Dimensions: 78 × 65.3 cm (30 3/4 × 25 3/four in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1930.934

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Frederick Due south. Wight, Milestones of American Painting in Our Century, introduction by Lloyd Goodrich (Boston: The Plant of Gimmicky Art with Chanticleer Press, New York, 1949), 30, 74, ill. pl. 21, 75.
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Kansas City, MO, William R. Nelson Gallery, October two–Nov 8, 1935.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Centennial Exposition, Jun 6–Nov 29, 1936, cat. 15, sick. p. 64.
Chicago Adult female's Society, Jan 20, 1937.
Bloomington, IL, Primal Illinois Art Exposition, Mar 19–Apr eight, 1939, cat. 106, ill. p. 29.
Iowa Metropolis, Fine Arts Festival, Iowa Union Lounge, University of Iowa, Exhibition of Paintings past Grant Wood and Marvin D. Cone, Jul 16–23, 1939, cat. 23.
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Bloomfield Hills, MI, Cranbrook Academy of Art, May 17–Jun half-dozen, 1940.
Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, American Art: Aspects of American Painting, 1900–1940, Jun 12–22, 1940, cat. 33.
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Cedar Rapids Art Clan, Grant Wood Memorial Exhibition, Sep 1–Oct 1, 1942, no cat. Run into Cedar Rapids Gazette, 9/vi/1942.
Art Institute of Chicago, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Grant Forest, included in the 50–third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct 29–Dec 12, 1942, cat. 2, color ill. frontispiece.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, 20th Century Portraits, Dec 8, 1942–Jan 24, 1943, p. 145, ill. p. 99.
Baltimore, Medico, February 12–Mar seven, 1943.
Worcester Fine art Museum, Mar 17–Apr 19, 1943.
Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Ten Americans, October 20–November 21, 1943, true cat. 29, sick.
Saginaw, MI, Saginaw Museum of Art, An Exhibition of American Painting from Colonial Times until Today, Jan 10–February 15, 1948, true cat. 71, pl. 13.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Famous American Paintings, Oct ix–31, 1948, due north.pag., sick.
Boston, Plant of Contemporary Fine art, Milestones of American Painting in Our Century, c. Jan 2–c. Mar iii, 1949, true cat. 21.
Montreal, Canada, Mar 18–Apr 20, 1949.
Canadian National Exhibition Art Exhibit, Aug 26–Sep 10, 1949.
Beloit, WI, Beloit Higher, Oct eleven–November 11, 1949.
Dayton, OH, Dayton Art Plant, The Artist and His Family, Mar iii–Apr 1950, cat. twoscore.
Cedar Rapids, IA, Coe College, Centennial Exhibition, May 15–Jun nine, 1952, cat. 24.
New York, Wildenstein, Landmarks in American Art, 1670–1950, Feb 26–Mar 28, 1953, true cat. 50, ill.
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 125 Years of American Art, Sep xv–Oct 11, 1953, cat. 59, ill. p. 18.
Dubuque, IA, Dubuque Art Clan, Thirty Years of Grant Forest, Feb 15–Feb 23, 1955, cat. ix.
Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Fine art Center, Communicating Fine art from Midwest Collections: American and European Paintings and Sculpture, 1835–1955, Oct thirteen–November half-dozen, 1955, cat. 20, ill.
Davenport, IA, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Grant Woods and the American Scene, Feb three–24, 1957, cat. five, ill. p. 5.
Lake Forest, IL, Durand Art Found, Lake Forest College, A Century Of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Fine art Institute of Chicago, Jun 10–sixteen, 1957, cat. 24.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Face of America: The History of Portraiture in the U.s.a., November 13, 1957–Jan 26, 1958, cat. 92, fig. 41.
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The American Muse: Parallel Trends in Literature and Art, Apr 4–May 17, 1959, cat. 130.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois, In Accolade of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, Jun xv–Sep 8, 1968, p. ten.
Art Institute of Chicago, 100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of the SAIC, Centennial Exhibition, Nov 23, 1979–January 20, 1980, cat. 112, sick. p. 35.
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Grant Forest: The Regionalist Vision, Jun 16–Sep four, 1983, true cat. 25, pl. 32; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sep 25, 1983–Jan 1, 1984; Art Constitute of Chicago, January 21–Apr 15, 1984; San Francisco, 1000. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, May 12–Aug 12, 1984.
Omaha, NE, Joslyn Art Museum, Grant Woods: An American Master Revealed, Dec x, 1995–Feb 25, 1996, true cat. 14, pl. 16; Davenport, IA, Davenport Museum of Fine art, Mar 23–Sep 8, 1996; Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, Oct 6–Dec 31, 1996.
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–1950, Apr 23–Aug 22, 1999, true cat. 435, color ill. p. 225.
Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Museum of Fine art, Grant Woods at 5 Turner Alley, Sep 10–Dec 4, 2005.
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Grant Wood'south Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic, Mar 10–Jun xi, 2006.
Des Moines Art Heart, After Many Springs: Fine art in the Midwest in the 1930s, Jan 30–Mar 30, 2009.
Art Plant of Chicago, America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, Jun 5–Sep xviii, 2016; Paris, Musee de l'Orangerie, October 15, 2016–Jan 30, 2017; London, Royal University, Feb 25–Jun iv, 2017, cat. 47.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Mar 2-Jun 10, 2018, no cat no., pl. 33, checklist p. 259.

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