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Title
English: American Gothic
Description
English: This is a digitized image of the original painting American Gothic that Grant Wood, a master artist of the twentieth century, created in 1930 and sold to the Art Institute of Chicago in November of the same year.
Date 1930
Medium oil on beaver board
Dimensions 78 × 65.3 cm (30.7 × 25.7 in)
Gallery 263
Accession number 1930.934
Credit line Friends of American Art Collection
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower right on overalls: GRANT / WOOD / 1930
References description of the artwork
Source/Photographer From The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
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English: Digitized images of the original painting American Gothic that Grant DeVolson Wood, created in 1930 and sold to the Art Institute of Chicago in November of the same year

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