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Grant Wood: American Gothic  wikidata:Q464782 reasonator:Q464782
Artist
artist QS:P170,Q217434
 Grant Wood: American Gothic
Title
American Gothic
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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.
Depicted people
Date 1930
date QS:P571,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on beaverboard
Dimensions Height: 78 cm (30.7 in); Width: 65.3 cm (25.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,78U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,65.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q239303
Current location
Gallery 263
Accession number
1930.934
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Friends of American Art Collection
Inscriptions Signature and date bottom right: GRANT / WOOD / 1930
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Source/Photographer From The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
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