Grant Wood
Sultry Night

Sultry Night

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Sultry Night
Sultry Night
ArtistAmerican, 1891–1942
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sultry Night
Date1939
PlaceUnited States
MediumLithograph, edition of 100
DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 11 3/4 in. (23 × 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 14 15/16 in. (29.2 × 37.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number91.1921
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Figuring the Body", February 25 through May 25, 1997, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

"Masterworks of Lithography", February 12 through May 8, 2005, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. [106 Cameron]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: in lower right border of sheet, may not be authentic.:
Inscribed in pencil, lower right corner (inverted): "9 x 11 3/4", on verso, lower right corner: " "Sultry Night"/ 3A-GW-1 P-2-LHVHV"; on mount, left bottom edge: "GRANT WOOD SULTRY NIGHT, 1939 LITHOGRAPH, ED. 100", lower right corner: "5000"[barely erased]
bottom right below image in pencil "Grant Wood"

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