Iowa History Month: Grant Wood's "Sultry Night"

Iowa artist Grant Wood's most controversial painting and lithograph might be one he titled, "Sultry Night."  The lithograph was banned by the U.S. Post Office and Wood, in frustration, sawed the painting in two and burned the objectionable half. In this program we will discuss the painting, conditions of the time (1930s), and also identify the man thought to have posed.