Dental Opinion, A Little Art and Dentistry
Did you know that the stone-faced farmer in artist Grant Wood’s famous “American Gothic” painting was actually the artist’s dentist. He used his sister and his dentist as models for a farmer and his daughter, dressing them as if they were “tintypes from my old family album. This familiar image was exhibited publicly for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning a three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame for Grant Wood.