Grant Wood - The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover 1931
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The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover 1931
75c100cm oil/masonite
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, United States
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From Minneapolis Institute of Arts:
Wood did not re-create the scene as it may have looked at the president's birth. Instead he painted it as the tourist attraction it had become. Upon Hoover's election to the presidency, the ordinary cottage, which had been turned into a kitchen by later owners, began to attract visitors from all over the country. The owner of the cottage charged visitors ten cents for tours of it and set up a souvenir stand. Wood included a sign in front of the house and a pink rock in which the Daughters of the American Revolution had placed a plaque identifying the house as Hoover's birthplace.