1. Regionalism

2. Thomas Hart Benton Grant Woods John Stuart Curry
Artists
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Woods
John Stuart Curry

3. Farmers Natural beauty American Heartland Natural disasters
Subjects
Farmers
Natural beauty
American Heartland
Natural disasters

4. Disctinctly American Mid-west Bread basket states
Location
Disctinctly American
Mid-west
Bread basket states

5. Reasons it started: Reaction to abstraction and European art
Rebelling against “big city” art
Great Depression and Dust Bowl

6. Dorothea Lange

8. Jpohn Stuart Curry

12. Thomas Hart Benton

17. Grant Woods

21. IOWANS WEREN'T FANS, TO SAY THE LEAST.
WAS INSTANTLY A BIG HIT.  American Gothic was submitted to the 1930 annual exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it won a bronze medal and a $300 prize. But that's not all. The Art Institute acquired the piece for its collection. From there, a picture of the prize-winning painting ran in the Chicago Evening Post, then in newspapers across the U.S., gaining fame and popularity with each printing. Eighty-five years later, American Gothic still calls the Art Institute home.
IOWANS WEREN'T FANS, TO SAY THE LEAST. 
When the newspapers in Wood's hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, first presented an image ofAmerican Gothic, the painting sparked a backlash. This dour portrayal was not how the locals saw themselves, and they resented being presented this way to the world. One farm wife was so enraged by the painting that she threatened to bite Wood's ear off. Another suggested he have his "head bashed in." Wood was stunned by the acrimony, insisting he was a "loyal Iowan" who meant no offense, only homage.

22. AMERICAN GOTHIC FUELED THE RISE OF "REGIONALISM."
An American realist modern art movement that shunned urbanism in favor of the glories found in rural settings, Regionalism (or American Scene painting) hit the peak of its popularity in the 1930s thanks to Wood's works as well as those of Missouri's Thomas Hart Benton and Kansas's John Steuart Curry. Wood played into this brand, always sporting overalls, and proclaiming to the press, "All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."