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Re: [OM] Tribute to Grant Wood

Subject: Re: [OM] Tribute to Grant Wood
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:37:10 -0400
I think maybe your recent photo was inspired by this from Wood:
<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/wood/youngcorn.html>

Chuck Norcutt


Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I remember the painting well but I always thought it was done by Andrew
>> Wyeth.
>>
>> Until this week had never consciously heard of Grant Wood.
> 
> The emblematic thing in "American Gothic" is not knowing how to take
> it.  Most of Wood's best paintings are like that.
> 
> http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/wood/gallery4.html#daughters
> 
> The Parson Weems painting is probably familiar to most Americans
> without their knowing necessarily who painted it.  I love the tiny
> little George Washington, and his wig.
> 
> Joel W.
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