American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Art Print Frame Color:Natural or Portrait of the Artist's

or Portrait of the Artist's Mother

It is a full-length double portrait depicting the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini

and a loving couple

next to a chair

it is speculated to be a visual illusion used to portray light and dimension

American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Art Print Frame Color:Natural or Portrait of the Artist'sAmerican Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century. Wood was inspired to paint the house in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The painting's name is a word play on Carpenter Gothic, the house's architectural style. It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter often mistaken to be his wife with the symmetry of the two mimicking the shape of the unique