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	This famous painting is often misinterpreted as a farmer and his wife but the artist intended it to be a farmer and his daughter! The painting is considered a type of regionalism and portrays scenes around Iowa. The artist was Grant Wood (1891-1942) and the painting won $300 and a bronze medal from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 (The painting is still there, hanging on the wall). The artist used his sister Nan and his dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby as models for the “farmer” and his “daughter”. Wood won a national art contest in elementary school and he had a job painting camouflage during WWI. In the painting . . . .The upstairs window is unusual for a farmhouse, in that it is in the Gothic Style as seen as cathedrals in Europe.
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