About Grant Wood’s American Gothic: the judges weren’t impressed, but a “powerful” museum patron arranged to have the painting awarded third prize in a competition run by the Art Institute of Chicago, and then persuaded the institute to buy it.
About Grant Wood’s American Gothic: the judges weren’t impressed, but a “powerful” museum patron arranged to have the painting awarded third prize in a competition run by the Art Institute of Chicago, and then persuaded the institute to buy it.