Man And Woman In Front Of Barn Painting

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Man and woman in front of barn painting. In the video the pair. Woods free use of reality can also be seen by the addition of a barn and by creating a scenea man and woman posed in front of the housewhich never occurred. Man and woman in farm clothing holding a hay fork. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 20th century rural americana while the man is adorned in overalls covered by a suit jacket and carries a pitchfork.

The models for the artwork never posed together when they were drawn prior to or during the painting of american gothic. In fact wood modeled each element separatelygraham and mckeeby never actually stood together in front of the house. The painting was made on a piece of copper in the week between 15 and 22 october 1935. The woman in the painting is woods younger sister and the man is his dentist.

Miro said that the subject resulted from trying to represent the tragedy and torture of the spanish civil warthe painting was one of twelve known as the wild paintings. The figures were modeled by woods sister nan wood graham and their dentist dr. You can read more about it and grant wood here. Half of these were painted on copper whilst the remaining six were on the type of hardboard called masonite.

See original story below. They are standing in front of a real farm house in eldon iowa. What is name of famous painting man and woman with hay fork in country setting. American gothic is one of the most familiar images of 20th century amer.

The iconic american gothic was painted by grant wood in 1930.