Modern Era · North America · Culture
1930
Grant Wood paints American Gothic
1930
An Iowa artist painted his dentist and his sister posing in front of a small white farmhouse, a pitchfork in the man's hand, and submitted the result to the Art Institute of Chicago. The dour couple, unmoored from irony, became an immediate American icon. The image would be parodied for the rest of the century.
In context
Also in 1930 (5 other events on record)
- Gandhi's Salt March · South Asia · Politics
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff signed · North America · Politics
- Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie · Africa · Politics
- Pluto discovered from Arizona · North America · Science
- Daylight saving time becomes federal · North America · Politics
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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