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Sultry Night
193920th century
17 x 19 1/2 in. (43 x 50 cm)
Grant Wood, American, (1891–1942)
Object Type:
print
Medium and Support:
Lithograph on paper
Credit Line:
Gift of William O. Gross Jr.
Accession Number:
1986.040
Object Description
Nude man standing at water trough pouring water on face from bucket held overhead. Tree at right behind trough, flat back- ground with one small tree in far background. Grant Wood unknowingly created a controversy with this 1939 lithograph of a farmhand cooling himself at a water trough. Sultry Night, controversial because of its blatant, realistic depiction of the male nude was deemed so shocking that the United States Postal Service refused to mail the prints to customers of Wood’s New York publisher Association of American Artists (AAA). As a result, only 100 of the intended 260 impressions of Sultry Night were produced and sold “over the counter” at AAA.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas , 10/20/1988 - 2/15/1989
- Influences , 8/24/1995 - 10/22/1995
- Modernist Masters, Contemporary Icons: Highlights from the Old Jail Art Center The Rockwell Museum , 2/3/2017 - 4/23/2017
- The Ruby Portfolio , 2/22/2020 - 8/22/2020
Bibliography List
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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James Peck
and Patrick Kelly.
Old Jail Art Center Catalogue.
Old Jail Art Center.
Albany, 2016
Page Number: 44
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