Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' Quilled Paper Picture

This quilled paper picture measures 53x63cms (21x25ins), is presented in a black mounted inlay box frame behind glass and has a wall hanging mount. Each picture is made to order and will be a unique, one of a kind, piece of art. 

Free P&P to the UK.

American Gothic is a 1930’s painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture.

Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people [he] fancied should live in that house". It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter – often mistakenly assumed to be his wife.  The painting's name is a word play on the house's architectural style, Carpenter Gothic.

The figures were modelled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. 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 plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia, which also appear in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother, Woman with Plants.

Source: Wikipedia