‘Goth' Bless the Heartland Dreamers
Driving past a white-framed clapboard house, he saw a medieval-arched window on the second story. The house's architectural style was known as Carpenter Gothic, or Rural Gothic. Mesmerized by what he considered 'a structural absurdity' on such a simple structure, the young artist that he decided it would make a wonderful backdrop for an American heartland scene he imagined. One might say Grant Wood was 'drawn' to the house and what it represented in his artist's imagination.
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