A short piece up the hill from the Des Moines River, Charles Dibble erected a home for his wife Catherine and eight children. Orange Daylilies from Asia and Gothic-style windows were the fashion of the time. Catherine wanted a church window.
About 40 years later, an Iowa gallerist and some painters happened by the house. Grant Wood immortalized the 'form of borrowed pretentiousness, a structural absurdity' in his painting American Gothic.
A Church Window for Catherine is my whimsical prologue to Wood's painting.
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| Price | $1,250.00 |
| Dimensions | 18 x 24 x 3 H x W x D (in) |
| Weight | 5 (lbs) |
| Creation Date | October 2021 |
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Subject Famous Places |
Style Realism |
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Medium Acrylic |
Substrate Canvas |
| Framed Signed Hang Ready | |
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