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William Ashby McCloy’s 1936 “Lost Horizon” could be a gloss on Grant Wood’s 1930 “American Gothic,” this time with the farming couple crouched in defeat next to a plow and a drained water barrel in a bare dust-bowl landscape.

Oh, there’s also “American Gothic.”

Among the thousands of images are “New American Gothic,” by Ayana Ross, the winner of the 2021 Bennett Prize for women artists; “Emerald Girl,” a portrait in Lego bricks by Pauline Aubey; and the aptly titled “New Moon,” a 1980 serigraph by Alex Colville.

It is, Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times, “a sly American Gothic.”

The first section, titled “Icons,” displays reproductions of the library’s most requested photos, which include pictures of Abraham Lincoln and the Wright brothers, as well as Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” and Gordon Parks’s “American Gothic.”