Grant Wood and the After-Life of Victorian Architecture
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Grant Wood and the After-Life of Victorian Architecture
Kerry Dean Carso Chair and Associate Professor of Art History State University of New York at New Paltz
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Andrew Jackson
Downing (1815-1852)
Design II from Downing’s Cottage Residences, 1842
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Wood, Sketch for House in “American Gothic,” 1930 (oil on paperboard)
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Grant Wood, American Gothic,
1930
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John Reichard House, East of Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, c. 1865 (photographed for HABS in 1976 before demolition)
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Downing’s legacy in 20th-century American art
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Walker Evans, Gothic Gate Cottage Near Poughkeepsie, New York, 1930-31 (gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Walker Evans, Gothic Gate Cottage Near Poughkeepsie, New York, 1930-31 (gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad, 1925
Walker Evans, Folk Victorian House with Jigsaw Ornament Gables and Porch,
Nyack, New York, 1930-1 (glass negative, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Walker Evans, Wooden Gothic
House, Massachusetts, 1930-1, gelatin
silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum
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Walker Evans, Gothic House, Somerville, Massachusetts, 1931 (gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Walker Evans, Wooden Gothic House, Near Nyack, New York, 1931 (gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Walker Evans, Wooden Gothic House, Near Nyack, New York, 1931 (gelatin silver print,
J. Paul Getty Museum)
Walker Evans, Gothic Gate Cottage Near Poughkeepsie, New York , 1930-31 (gelatin
silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum)
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Grant Wood, American Gothic,
1930
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Grant Wood, Yellow Doorway, St. Émilion (Porte de Cloître de l’ Église Collégiale), 1924
Grant Wood, The Barred Door, Chancelade (La Porte Barrée,
Chancelade), 1926
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Grant Wood, Market Place, Nuremberg, 1928
‘The Lovely Well’: A Small Gothic Structure at Nürnberg’ illustrated in Ernest Batchelder, “The Abiding Lesson of Gothic Architecture: All Its Beauty and Inspiration the Outgrowth of Sound Construction,” The Craftsman, Vol. XV, No. 5 (Feb. 1909), p. 541.
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Grant Wood, American Gothic,
1930
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Santa’s house, Cooperstown, New York
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