Word: gothicized
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...known name in U.S. art, covered the period between 1914 and 1941. This cross-section of U.S. printmaking showed that: 1) in variety and quality of work, U.S. printmakers were leading the world; 2) since World War I, U.S. print-makers had turned gradually from Romantic Venetian canals and Gothic cathedrals to forthright, glamorless, often satirical comments on the U.S. scene...
...architectural influence of Connecticut and the old South, the wave of classic, pillared Greek Revival that swept all U.S. architecture in the middle 1800s. But Cincinnati's show contained one style of architecture that was as indigenous to the Ohio River Valley as the river itself: Steamboat Gothic. Best example was a fine old mansion, "Hill-Forest," which stands on the muddy Ohio's banks near Aurora, Ind. (see cut). With circular tower and porches, wrought-iron balustrades, Steamboat Gothic represented the last word in elegance to riverboat captains of the 1850s, is one of the most elaborate...
...found at last the infinitely scrupulous, polished and detailed kind of painting he had always wanted to do. He returned to Cedar Rapids with a new way of looking at things, started to paint Iowa with the meticulous care of a Memling in modern dress. Two years later American Gothic, exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, created a furor, and Painter Wood's reputation was made...
lowans at first felt insulted by American Gothic, ended by being proud of it. Younger Midwest artists greeted Wood as an emancipator. Wood himself was able to move from his humble residence at the back of a Cedar Rapids funeral parlor to a fine old red-brick house in Iowa City...
...exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail: the designs of wire fences, overall seams, the rickrack braid on Iowa farm dresses. Some of his pictures (Daughters of Revolution, Dinner for Threshers, Arbor Day) became almost as famous as his American Gothic...