Sterling Morton Students Display Art, Knowledge at Talking Museum

The groups of fourth graders took turns portraying some of the world's most famous artists and paintings

Several Sterling Morton Elementary School fourth-graders seemed to take the seventh annual Talking Museum event a little more seriously than most art projects. "I'm the most famous painting in the world, right after 'Starry Night' and 'Mona Lisa,'" Grace Kidner said with conviction as her head poked through her group's rendition of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" piece. "This is my dentist, and that's my daughter," Dylan Armao, acting as Wood, said as he pointed to the famous subjects of "American Gothic. "I decided to paint this because I was driving along and I saw this window. It's Gothic and you don't usually see that in America, so I thought I'd do a painting of it." Art teacher Jacqui Spetrino said 74 children from three, fourth-grade…

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