Couple with the Pitchfork

A rich, evolving history of one of the most recognized couples in the worldIn this abundantly illustrated book, award-winning art historian Wanda Corn tracks the fortunes and vicissitudes of Grant Wood's American Gothic, his realist painting of a rural man and woman posed stiffly before a modest white house with a gothic-styled window, made in 1930. She explores Wood's scrappy formation as a disad...