- American Gothic (1930), by Grant Wood
- Ella Watson, with an adopted daughter and three of her grandchildren
- Uncropped version of the photo
American Gothic (also known as American Gothic, Washington, D.C.[2]) is a photograph of Ella Watson, a charwoman, taken by the photographer Gordon Parks in 1942.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] It is a reimagining of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood.[7]
Time magazine considers American Gothic one of the "100 most influential photographs ever taken".[1][12]