Iowa: Dibble House, Eldon This simple, whitewashed home inspired Depression-era artist Grant Wood to paint his best-known canvas, "American Gothic." Wood was transfixed by the house, constructed in the Carpenter Gothic vernacular, and the type of people who might have inhabited it: "I imagine...
Iowa: Dibble House, Eldon This simple, whitewashed home inspired Depression-era artist Grant Wood to paint his best-known canvas, "American Gothic." Wood was transfixed by the house, constructed in the Carpenter Gothic vernacular, and the type of people whomight have inhabited it: "I imagined...
Iowa: Dibble House, Eldon This simple, whitewashed home inspired Depression-era artist Grant Wood to paint his best-known canvas, "American Gothic." Wood was transfixed by the house, constructed in the Carpenter Gothic vernacular, and the type of people whomight have inhabited it: "I imagined...
Iowa: Dibble House, Eldon This simple, whitewashed home inspired Depression-era artist Grant Wood to paint his best-known canvas, "American Gothic." Wood was transfixed by the house, constructed in the Carpenter Gothic vernacular, and the type of people whomight have inhabited it: "I imagined...
Albert Quigley promised his wife a new house built from the timber felled on their own property. When he failed to deliver, Elise Quigley—with the help of her five children—razed the wooden shack they called home. Construction on the new dwelling,designed by Elise, began in 1943. Encrusted...