Desert Giants, Utah - Franz A. Bischoff, 1928

A statue of American Gothic. Grant Wood adopted the precise realism of 15th-century northern European artists, but his native Iowa provided the artist with his subject matter. American Gothic depicts a farmer and his spinster daughter posing before their house, whose gabled window and tracery, in the American gothic style, inspired the painting's title. In fact, the models were the painter's sister and their dentist. Wood was accused of creating in this work a satire on the intolerance and…

Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series/Tabi miyage dai sanshu - Kawase Hasui, 1928

Tsuchiya Koitsu - Lake Kawaguchi at the Foot of Mt Fuji - Japanese woodblock print.

Edward Hopper - Marshall’s House, 1932

My Bed - Tracey Emin, 1998

Edward Hopper - Construction in Mexico To escape the tense climate of New England, Hopper and his wife Jo began visiting Mexico for their summers in 1943. On their first trip they discovered the...

Grand Central Cafe, Girl in a Blue Skirt - Sally Storch, 2006

Lights of Shotei 1871-1945 Takahashi Shotei was born in January 1871 in the Asakusa section of Tokyo. His given name was Takahashi Katsutaro...

Autumn - Johannes Itten, 1963