A granddad who was the subject of a celebrated reimagining of one of America’s most iconic paintings has been detained by ICE and is facing deportation by the Trump administration.
The father of Chicana artist Criselda Vasquez—whose 2017 canvas “The New American Gothic” reimagined Grant Wood’s instantly recognizable 1930 masterpiece by putting her Mexican-born parents at its center—had lived in the United States for more than four decades.
While the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles added the painting to its permanent collection in 2021, the man’s name has never been revealed.
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