Opinion

American gothic, close up of two figures described in story. 
Reframed: Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”
In the summer of 1930, Grant Wood, then age 39, was traveling through the rural town of Eldon, Iowa, searching for artistic inspiration. He spotted a white wooden house in a gothic style, quite at…
Emmanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 
Reframed: Emmanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
Skeptics of the American Dream likely will consider Emmanuel Leutze’s masterpiece depicting George Washington crossing the Delaware River to be a propagandistic romanticizing of America, a work…