If farm livin' is the life for you, then get ready to pack your bags. You could soon be hanging out in history's most famous little farm house. The iconic home from Grant Wood's 1930 painting American ...

One of the most famous paintings in American history will be on display in central Iowa over the next two months. American Gothic by Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood will be unveiled tonight at the Des ...

ELDON — What could have happened between the man and woman in one of America's most famous paintings? That's what Brad Schuster, a RAGBRAI rider from Denver, Colorado, wondered when he witnessed the ...

From overlooked roadside attractions to offbeat museums and obscure natural wonders, Local Hidden Gems will showcase some of the unique and unexpected treasures that make America extraordinary. We ...

A new exhibit opens this week at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art featuring some of the many parodies of the painting “American Gothic.” The most famous work by Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood is ...

More than 16,000 people visit the southeast Iowa town of Eldon each year to see the white cottage featured as the backdrop for the iconic 'American Gothic” painting by Grant Wood. But the town of ...

What gives some works of art incredible staying power while others fade into obscurity? But as nearly a million annual visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago will tell you, the original image is ...

Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting (and all of its parodies) may be legendary, but most people don’t realize that the little white farmhouse in the background is real — that it’s in Eldon, Iowa ...

After the Mona Lisa, Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting is probably the world’s most-parodied work of art. Not bad for an Iowa farm boy who was born 125 years ago. Wood’s life and art are being ...

Even after almost 100 years, many questions surround Grant Wood’s iconic painting “American Gothic.” Was it a rural American satire or a paean? A portrait of mourning, small-minded oblivion or ...

Is Grant Wood’s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history, writes Fisun Güner. Could the painting possibly be a ...