American Tenants, 1937, Colorized Ritual Taken: October 1941Location: Greene County

Taken: October 1941Location: Greene County

hollow-eyed and grasping

- Christian Wolmar

1944Location: Exeter Airfield

Pictured here is the original copper-plated dome

American Tenants, 1937, Colorized Ritual Taken: October 1941Location: Greene CountyABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH I cannot help but think Russell Lee either shot the Landers at an opportune moment, or simply staged the tenant farmers to resemble Grant Wood's seminal painting American Gothic, painted less than a decade earlier though separated by half a day by car, Wood's location of the iconic couple is only a state away in Iowa. In Lee's close photograph of the Landers', husband and wife wear a contemporaneous version of farmers' clothing,