Chicago, Illinois - Giant American Gothic statue
- Address:
- 401 Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
- Directions:
- Michigan Ave. at N. Water St. on Chicago's Magnificent Mile
- Admission:
- Free.
- Hours:
- Always visible.
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Chicago, Illinois - Giant American Gothic statue A 25-foot interpretation of Grant Wood's famous (and often parodied) painting American Gothic sits at 401 Michigan Ave., just down the road from the original painting that hangs at the outstanding Chicago Institute of Art. The sculptor is J. Seward Johnson. It's awesome in its incongruity: earnest farm folk among gleaming skyscrapers, the Midwest's salt of the earth among the Midwest's most sophisticated urban backdrop, humble farmers blown up to giant urban dwellers. [Gunnar Johnson, eccentricroadside.blogspot.com, 07/28/2009]
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