Artist Grant Wood, who had a serious sweet tooth, used his dentist as the model for the painting’s pitchfork-holding man. Before this breakthrough, Wood was an unknown 39-year-old aspiring artist, ...

A new exhibit opens this week at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art featuring some of the many parodies of the painting “American Gothic.” The most famous work by Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood is ...

In a tiny Iowa town called Eldon, Grant Wood painted 'American Gothic,' immortalizing the faces of his sister and dentist in ...

It is among the blue ribbon winners at the Wapello County Fair crafts barn, built out of 16 Popsicle sticks. It’s printed on yellow banners that hang from lampposts lining Elm Street. And down ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Gothic art and architecture is usually associated with soaring vertical lines — church naves and belltowers, tall, pointed arches, sculptures of saints with long, slender bodies. The ...

Artist Ian Felice paints a world most often revealed in poetry. The painter and musician, who is best known as the singer-songwriter of the folk-rock band The Felice Brothers, lives in a small town in ...

The painting still hangs at the Art Institute, which does not disclose the value of the piece. But Jane C.H. Jacob, president of Jacob Fine Art in Chicago and a member of the board of directors of the ...

"This English edition of Česká malba gotická ... is an adaptation of the book which originated in the work of the Charles University Institute for the History of ...

GENTILE DA FABRIANO (signed). 1370-1450. (W., oil, 34 x 45.) Madonna and Child in a Gothic niche, around which are intwined roses and pomegranates. Gentile is the father of Venetian coloring, and this ...