Grant Wood Sultry Night
One of the rarest of Grant Wood's prints, Sultry Night was created in 1937 for Associated American Artists, a Depression-era enterprise that sold original prints by American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Reginald Marsh. Sultry Night Grant Wood, Sultry Night, 1939, lithograph on paper, sheet: 11 3 ⁄ 4 x 16 in. (29.
8 x 40. 6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Park and Phyllis Rinard in honor of Nan Wood Graham, 1994.115.4 Zoom Download Artwork Details. Sunday, March 18, 2018 Grant Wood and the story of "Sultry Night" A lesser-known work by Iowa's favorite-son artist Grant Wood --- the lithograph entitled "Sultry Night".
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. Grant Wood's lithograph Sultry Night depicts a naked man standing beside a horse trough in the act of drenching himself with a bucket of water at the end of a hot summer day. The right side of the image is filled by a fence post and the trunk and dense foliage of a tree; placed near the left edge of the composition, the man is exposed against the flat expanse of a field.
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BUY TICKETS BECOME A MEMBER. GRANT WOOD (1891-1942) Sultry Night lithograph, on Rives paper, 1939, signed in pencil, from the edition of 100, published by Associated American Artists, New York, with full margins, in good condition Image: 9 x 11 3 ⁄ 4 (229 x 299 mm.) Sheet: 11 1 ⁄ 2 x 15 in. (292 x 381 mm.).
Footnotes Between 1937 and 1941, Grant Wood created 19 lithographs that were published by Associated American Artists (A.A.A.) but his 1937 print, Sultry Night, is the rarest and most unique. R. Tripp Evans: The lithograph is banned by the U.S.
postal system-being an example of pornography-and the painting itself, Wood ends up destroying. R. Tripp Evans: When Sultry Night the painting was unveiled, there were gasps and embarrassment at this image of a very frontally nude, front and center male figure.
Grant Wood created the Sultry Night print circa 1937 in Iowa for Associated American Artists, a Depression.