Untitled
1939
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1939
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
You see a small, bare tree on a hill, its branches reaching up like fingers against a pale sky. Wood made this print the same year he painted *American Gothic*. He often used trees to stand for people—lonely, stubborn, rooted in place. The lithograph ink gives the scene a soft, smudged look, as if the tree is barely holding on. To see how he turned simple shapes into quiet stories, look up more works by Grant Wood.
