/// Here’s “American Gothic” by Wood;
it’s world-famous, but misunderstood.
Thought to lampoon the life
of a farmer and wife,
that’s a daughter who next to Pa stood.
/// Grant had posed his own sister, named Nan,
by the side of a much older man—
Byron, (dentist by trade),
with a pitchfork displayed.
Their expressions the deadest of pan.
/// Viewers saw these as figures of mirth,
poking fun at “the salt of the earth.”
But Grant Wood always claimed
that he hadn’t defamed
rural folk of his Iowa birth.
/// Here’s “American Gothic” by Wood;
it’s world-famous, but misunderstood.
Thought to lampoon the life
of a farmer and wife,
that’s a daughter who next to Pa stood.
/// Grant had posed his own sister, named Nan,
by the side of a much older man—
Byron, (dentist by trade),
with a pitchfork displayed.
Their expressions the deadest of pan.
/// Viewers saw these as figures of mirth,
poking fun at “the salt of the earth.”
But Grant Wood always claimed
that he hadn’t defamed
rural folk of his Iowa birth.