One of the most iconic American images is American Gothic, a 1930 painting by Grant Wood of a farmer holding a pitchfork, ...

An icon of Americana is coming to New York for the first time in nearly 20 years: Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2018 retrospective ...

ELDON, Iowa — Bruce Thiher is accustomed to opening his door and finding pilgrims who have driven long miles to this no-stoplight railroad town where the trains don’t go anymore. They have not come to ...

In a beautifully illustrated new book, Portraits Unmasked: The Stories Behind the Faces, authors Francesca Bonazzoli and Michele Robecchi give readers a glimpse into the illuminating narratives ...

On an unassuming street in Eldon, Iowa — population 785 — a little white house that inspired one of the world’s most famous paintings sits on a grassy lawn. Built in the 1880s by a local family, the ...

Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting (and all of its parodies) may be legendary, but most people don’t realize that the little white farmhouse in the background is real — that it’s in Eldon, Iowa ...

AMERICAN GOTHIC: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting. By Steven Biel. Norton, 215 pp. $21.95. The DVD of the television series The Simple Life, in which two heiresses spend time on a farm with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Thanks for keeping your mouth shut,” says Virginia Madsen in the second episode of American Gothic; too bad she isn’t the show’s ...

Other than Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” it would be hard to name a work of Western art that has been more exhaustively reproduced, parodied, pimped, praised, and ...

Visitors to the American Gothic House Center are encouraged to play the part of the famous pair from the painting. Alex Palmer Beginning May 1, visitors to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will notice some strange ...