BEST American Gothic EVER

Seeing as how we both were in DC this weekend, Emily and I ventured down to the Renwick Gallery to see the Grant Wood Exhibit. For those of you who aren’t the biggest Grant Wood fans, he was a famous regional painter from Iowa during the 1920's and 1930's. You’ll probably know him best as the “guy who painted American Gothic”. I had read that the exhibit featured the painting American Gothic, which pretty much was the entire motivation for checking out the exhibit.

We’re wandering through Grant’s exhibit, doing the thing that you do when you go to galleries – oohh and ahhh’ing over pictures of his studio, his signature glasses, exclaiming over about 9,000 paintings of corn, etc when we get to the point of the exhibit where American Gothic should have been.

Instead of the actual painting hanging up, there is a POSTER of the painting with a little paragraph stating that the actual painting had been in DC but it had been returned to Chicago a week earlier!