American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon as the branches float against

as the branches float against a blue sky

and displayed at the Galerie Belvedere in Vienna until it was returned in 2006 to one of Ferdinand's nieces

The character may be the ghost of the wife of Kohada Koheiji in the play Eiri otogi zoshi

But armed conflicts continued into the 1920s

or perhaps as the large uprooted tree standing as a third figure in the moonlight

American Gothic ☰ Grant Wood ☷ Canvas moon as the branches float againstAmerican 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