A #TBT to make you look twice. Here we see Grant Wood’s iconic 1930 painting, American Gothic: an ironic reference to the gothic window of the featured (and otherwise entirely non-gothic) Iowa farmhouse featured. Its figures are a fictional father and daughter, whom Wood described as representing “the kind of people [he] fancied should live in that house”. In reality, they were based on his sister Nan Wood Graham and his dentist Dr Byron McKeeby, seen here posing beside their painted doubles. This photograph is said to have been taken shortly after Wood’s death in 1942 and was the first time the work’s protagonists had been reunited since sitting for it.
