The Reading Warehouse

Decorative Notebooks for People who Love Art

MULTIPURPOSE Blank journal notebook for sketching, jotting down thoughts, doodling, and taking notes
COVER DESIGN A bold and beautiful reproduction of "American Gothic" by Grant Wood (1930)
QUALITY Non-glossy cover, so fingerprints and light glare won't be a problem. Premium quality paper provides an enjoyable writing experience.
SIZE 6 x 9 inches - 100 pages - Easy to Carry

About the Cover:

American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." It depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter - often mistakenly interpreted to be his wife.

The figures were modeled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 20th-century rural Americana, and the man is holding a pitchfork. The plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia, which are the same as the plants in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother Woman with Plants.

American Gothic is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art and has been widely parodied in American popular culture. In 2016-17, the painting was displayed in Paris at the Mus e de l'Orangerie and in London at the Royal Academy of Arts in its first showings outside the United States.