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 ...

Criselda Vasquez, “The New American Gothic” (2017), oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches (courtesy the artist) Ever since it was first displayed at the Art Institute Chicago (AIC) in 1930, Grant Wood’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...