Americana the Beautiful

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977 and author, American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece (Chamberlain Bros./Penguin, 2005),
- offers his insight into the making and meaning of "American Gothic," the iconic painting of the farm couple and their pitchfork
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