Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/American Gothic

American Gothic

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Original – Grant DeVolson Wood's American Gothic, one of the most familiar images in 20th century American art. It is an oil painting on beaverboard and measures 74.3 cm × 62.4 cm (29¼ in × 24½ in).

Reason

Iconic work in high resolution, nice and free

Articles in which this image appears

American Gothic, Grant Wood, +8

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Grant Wood

• Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:37, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support -- Great stuff. Would have loved to see even more detail. Saffron Blaze (talk) 01:59, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
• Question: Why is there a white border around three sides, but not the right side? Clegs (talk) 08:59, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

• I opened it in GIMP and could not see a border. There is some cracking around the edges, though. Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:22, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Brandmeister^talk 11:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support e^xtra999 (talk) 13:44, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support I wanna party with these two! --Hadseys (talk) 15:22, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support -- as per Hadseys :) Jkadavoor (talk) 05:49, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support Agree with Saffron Blaze. Colin°^Talk 22:08, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
• SupportThey look straight out of a zombie horror.[[User talk:ayanosh|T]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/ayanosh|M]] (talk) 18:19, 1 April 2012 (UTC)ayanosh

Promoted File:Grant DeVolson Wood - American Gothic.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 15:24, 3 April 2012 (UTC)