Which American painter is famous for 'American Gothic'?

The American painter famous for American Gothic is Grant Wood. Completed in 1930, the painting shows a stern-looking man holding a pitchfork beside a woman in front of a small Carpenter Gothic-style house.

Wood found the house in Eldon, Iowa, and used it as the painting’s architectural inspiration. The two figures were modeled by his sister, Nan Wood Graham, and the family’s dentist, Byron McKeeby. They were not intended simply as a literal farmer and his wife; Wood described the subjects more generally as the sort of people he imagined might live in the house.

American Gothic became an immediate sensation after winning a prize and being exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Its meaning has long been debated. Some viewers saw a satire of rural rigidity, while others interpreted it as a respectful portrait of Midwestern endurance during the Depression era.

The title refers to the pointed window’s Gothic design, not to a European medieval scene. It is also commonly misidentified as a Norman Rockwell painting, but Rockwell was a different American illustrator known for narrative scenes of everyday life.