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Piero della Francesca inspired this artist’s portrait of his assistant Arnold Pyle with a butterfly. A nude farmhand pours water over himself (20[1])in this artist’s (20[2])drawing (20[1])Sultry Night, (20[1])which was burned (20[1])by his sister. The discovery of Pluto may have inspired this artist to include a globe atop a spire and a brooch of Persephone in one painting. (20[2])A satirical painting by this artist features three (*) elderly women (10[1])in front of (10[4])Emanuel (10[3])Leutze’s (10[4])(“LOYT-zuh’s”) Washington (10[4])Crossing (10[3])the Delaware. (10[3])This (10[2])Iowan painted (10[1])Daughters of Revolution and had his dentist model (10[1])as a man (10[1])holding a pitchfork in front of the Dibble House for his most famous painting. For 10 points, name this artist of American Gothic. ■END■

ANSWER: Grant Wood
<Ganon Evans, Fine Arts - Painting - U.S. to 1945&gt; ~25299~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>
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