“American Gothic” — the famed 1930 portrait featuring a stern, skinny middle-aged woman and a pitchfork-wielding older gentleman — is one of the most famous paintings in the world.

Girl with Pitchfork, (painting) American Art Museum. Object Details painter Homer, Winslow 1836-1910 Notes "Americans in Paris, 1850-1910: the acadamy, the salon, the studio, and the artist's colony," ...

Is "American Gothic" America's best-known painting? Certainly it's one of them. Grant Wood's dual portrait -- with its churchy evocations, its stiffness and its pitchfork -- pierced us long ago ...