GLOGIRLY: Grant Wood

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Caturday Art Hop with the American Gothic Cats

WAFFLES: Hey Boss! Whatcha doing in that funny apron?

KATIE: You should talk! You're the one in the baggy overalls that smell like farm.

WAFFLES: Can I touch your rickrack?

KATIE: Not if you want a date with the business end of that pitchfork.

WAFFLES: So how long are we supposed to stand here?

KATIE: As long as all the other cats want to look at us. Today is the Caturday Art Hop.

WAFFLES: This is going to be a loooooong Caturday.

Caturday Art Hop

We're joining a new blog hop called the Caturday Art Hop. It's a chance for cats everywhere in the blogosphere to show off their own cat-art creations. We had a little help from Grant Wood, the painter of the famous 20th century masterpiece, American Gothic.

Learn more about the Caturday Art Hop and check out all the creative cats on Athena Cat Goddess Blog.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

American Gothic Cats

Hi everyone, Katie here.

I'm giving Waffles Too an art history lesson today. Glogirly first learned about American painter Grant Wood's American Gothic way back when she was a kid and received a Masterpiece board game for Christmas. Her parents both had grown up on farms and she was grateful whe didn't have to wear clothes like the farmer and his wife wore in the famous painting.

She studied art and design in college and eventually saw the painting in person at the Art Institute of Chicago.

American Gothic by Grant Wood
Art Institute of Chicago

Did you know?

☛ Wood had to ask permission of the Jones family in Eldon, Iowa to paint their house.

(I wonder if they knew he wasn't actually going to PAINT their house!)

☛ The woman in the painting is Wood's sister.

(Glogirly says if anyone put HER in an apron and painted her...well, it wouldn't be pretty.)

☛ The man in the painting is Wood's dentist.

(Glogirly is sure glad HER dentist doesn't use a pitchfork.)

☛ In 1930 Wood won a bronze medal and a $300 cash prize from the Art Institute of Chicago for his painting.

KATIE: Step AWAY from the pitchfork, Waffles.

WAFFLES TOO: Um, Boss? I can't move. I'm stuck inside this painting.

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