The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): GRANT WOOD 1931

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil M. Gooch, Memphis, Tenn. (1931–50; gift in 1950 to Y. W. C. A.); Y. W. C. A., Memphis (1950; sold through the Maynard Walker Gallery, New York to MMA)

Art Institute of Chicago. "Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 29–December 13, 1931, no. 213.

Art Institute of Chicago. "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture 1934," June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 718.

Art Institute of Chicago. "Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 29–December 10, 1942, no. 16 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gooch, Memphis).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 12).

Los Angeles. Pan Pacific Auditorium. "National Construction Industries Home Show Exposition," June 14–24, 1951.

Hempstead, N. Y. Hofstra College. "Metropolitan Museum Masterpieces," June 26–September 1, 1952, brochure no. 55 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.

Canberra. Australian National Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," March 1–April 27, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 54).

Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," May 7–July 1, 1986, unnumbered cat.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.

Turin. Galleria Lingotto. "Arte Americana, 1930–1970," January 11–March 31, 1992, unnumbered cat. (p. 98).

Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed," December 10, 1995–February 25, 1996, no. 2.

Davenport, Iowa. Davenport Museum of Art. "Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed," March 23–September 8, 1996, no. 2.

Worcester, Mass. Worcester Art Museum. "Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed," October 6–December 31, 1996, no. 2.

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000. Part 1: 1900–1950," April 23–August 22, 1999, unnumbered cat. (fig. 446).

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. "Grant Wood at 5 Turner Alley," September 9–December 4, 2005, no. 11.

Washington, D. C. Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic," March 10–July 16, 2006, no. 11.

Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. "American Painting in the 1930s," October 15, 2016–January 30, 2017, no. 49.

Royal Academy of Arts, London. "America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s," February 25–June 4, 2017, no. 49.

"Pay $15,000 for Wood Painting." Des Moines Register (June 22, 1950), p. 3.

"Grant Wood Painting Bought for $15,000." New York Times (June 22, 1950), p. 25.

Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the Twentieth Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, fig. 292, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".

Kathleen Howard, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York, 1983, p. 418, no. 17, ill. (color).

Ross Woodrow in 20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat., Australian National Gallery. Canberra, 1986, p. 54, ill. (color).

William S. Lieberman. 20th Century Art: Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vol. 1, Painting: 1905–1945. New York, 1986, pp. 48–49, 63, ill. (color, overall and detail), calls it "The Ride of Paul Revere".

Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of "American Gothic". Ed. Jane C. Milosch. Exh. cat., Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. New York, 2005, p. 105, colorpl. 11 and fig. 1 (in progress in the artist's studio, 1931).

Judith A. Barter in America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. Ed. Judith A. Barter. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2016, pp. 18, 187, no. 49.

Annelise K. Madsen in America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. Ed. Judith A. Barter. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2016, pp. 105–7, fig. 18 (color).