A stern farmer holding a pitchfork stands with a woman before a white farmhouse in Eldon, Iowa, whose upper window is a pointed Gothic arch. Grant Wood's sister Nan and his dentist, Byron McKeeby, posed; Wood later said the pair were father and daughter. First read as satire of the rural Midwest, it became a Depression-era image of pioneer endurance.
Look closer
The three prongs of the pitchfork repeat in the stitching of the man's overalls and in the Gothic window above. Nan trimmed her apron with rickrack cut from their mother's old dresses.
Looks like this
Compared by a vision model
