Tharmas
Veteran Member
Although I am neither British nor Australian, I have always admired the painting “The Last of England,” by Ford Madox Brown. Recently I googled it and found that the British public had voted it in as #8 on the list of favorite paintings. I found myself idly wondering how popular it was in Australia, or if the average Aussie had even heard of it.
Then I started wondering what a top ten of iconic American paintings would include. In no particular order I thought of:
Warhol’s Tomato Soup cans
Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”
Hopper’s “Night Hawks”
Whistler’s Mother
A Frederick Remington, but I don’t know which. “The End of the Trail” is iconic, but it’s a bronze sculpture and not a painting.
What other examples of iconic, well-known American paintings come to mind?
Then I started wondering what a top ten of iconic American paintings would include. In no particular order I thought of:
Warhol’s Tomato Soup cans
Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”
Hopper’s “Night Hawks”
Whistler’s Mother
A Frederick Remington, but I don’t know which. “The End of the Trail” is iconic, but it’s a bronze sculpture and not a painting.
What other examples of iconic, well-known American paintings come to mind?