Here, Wood depicts the legendary story of the American patriot Paul Revere, as learned from an 1863 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From a bird’s-eye view, the painting shows Revere on horseback racing through a colonial town square in Massachusetts. Despite the work’s historical subject matter, Wood did not attempt to depict the scene with factual accuracy. The houses are overly bright, as if lit by electric light, and the dramatic moonlight casts unrealistic shadows. The stylized houses, geometric greenery, and high perspective give the painting an otherworldly or dreamlike dimension.
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): GRANT WOOD 1931
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil M. Gooch, Memphis (1931–50; their gift in May 1950 to Y.W.C.A.); Y.W.C.A., Memphis (1950; sold through the Maynard Walker Gallery, New York to MMA)
Los Angeles Museum. "Twelfth Annual Exhibition by American Painters and Sculptors," March–April 1931, no. 103.
Saint Louis. City Art Museum. "Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists," September 19–November 1, 1931, no. 118 [possibly withdrawn early for Exh. Chicago 1931].
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 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. Cecil M. Gooch, Memphis).
Chicago. Lakeside Press Galleries. "Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Grant Wood," February–March 1935, no. 39 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," lent by Mrs. C. M. Gooch, Memphis).
New York. Ferargil Galleries. "First New York Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Grant Wood," April 15–May 4, 1935, no. 39 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," lent by Mrs. C. M. Gooch, Memphis).
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "The 1937 International Exhibition of Paintings," October 14–December 5, 1937, no. 18 (lent by Mrs. C. M. Gooch; not in competition).
Art Institute of Chicago. "Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 29–December 10, 1942, no. 16 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," lent by Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gooch, Memphis) [shown in the "Grant Wood" memorial exhibition section].
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. "6th Annual National Construction Industries Exposition and Home Show," June 14–24, 1951 [loan extended to the Tower Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall until August 10, 1951], no catalogue.
Hempstead, N. Y. Hofstra College. "Metropolitan Museum Masterpieces," June 26–September 1, 1952, brochure no. 55 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Cedar Rapids Art Association. "Grant Wood," November 6–December 16, 1955, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Junior Museum. "How to Look at Paintings," September 17, 1958–June 26, 1960, not in brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
Osaka. Japan World Exposition. United States Pavilion. "Images of America: American Painting," March 15–September 13, 1970, not in catalogue.
Moscow. State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. "Representations of America," December 15, 1977–February 15, 1978, no catalogue.
Leningrad. State Hermitage Museum. "Representations of America," March 15–May 15, 1978, no catalogue.
Minsk, Belarus. Palace of Art. "Representations of America," June 15–August 15, 1978, 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.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision," June 16–September 4, 1983, no. 29.
Minneapolis Institute of Art. "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision," September 29, 1983–January 1, 1984, no. 29.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision," January 21–April 15, 1984, no. 29.
San Francisco. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision," May 12–August 12, 1984, no. 29.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection One: Twentieth-Century Art," February 1–April 30, 1985, no catalogue.
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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting: 1905–1950," April 19–October 7, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting: 1930-1940," April 9–September 8, 1996, no catalogue (on view through August 1, 1996).
Worcester, Mass. Worcester Art Museum. "Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed," October 6–December 31, 1996, no. 24 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").
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; as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. "Grant Wood at 5 Turner Alley," September 9–December 4, 2005, unnumbered cat. (pl. 11; as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").
Washington, D. C. Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic," March 10–July 16, 2006, unnumbered cat.
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.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables," March 2–June 10, 2018, unnumbered cat. (pl. 41).
New-York Historical Society. "Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere," September 6, 2019–January 12, 2020, no. 109 (as "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere").
Mary Powell. "American Life Typified in American Paintings at St. Louis." American Magazine of Art 23 (November 1931), p. 432.
"Restraint Keynote of Paintings Shown at Annual Display." St. Louis Globe-Democrat (September 19, 1931), p. 5.
Eleanor Jewett. "American Exhibition at Institute." Chicago Daily Tribune (November 1, 1931), p. G4, calls it "The Night Ride of Paul Revere".
"Paul Revere's Ride." St. Louis Star (September 19, 1931), p. 12, ill.
"American Canvas Exhibit Here Has Modernistic Note." St. Louis Star (September 22, 1931), p. 5, calls it "Paul Revere's Ride".
"Grant Wood, Noted Cedar Rapids Painter, Will Address Iowa Artists Club Here." Des Moines Sunday Register (April 5, 1931), p. 4-L, ill.
Prudence Woollett. "Art." Saturday Night (March 28, 1931), ill.
"Ravelings From the Communal Gauze." Iowa Stethoscope (August 21, 1931), p. 5.
Walter J. Sherwood. "Exhibition of American Art." Chicago Visitor (November 1931), pp. 12–13, ill.
C. J. Bulliet. "The Annual Exhibition at Chicago Art Institute." New York Times (November 8, 1931), p. XX12.
"New Paintings by American Artists on View in St. Louis Museum." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (September 20, 1931), ill. p. 71.
"American Paintings to Be Exhibited Here." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (September 18, 1931), p. 7A.
Kansas City Star (April 5, 1931), p. 6, ill.
Arthur Millier. "Variety Spices Annual: Twelfth American Painters' and Sculptors' Exhibit Shows Something for Every Taste." Los Angeles Times (March 22, 1931), part III, p. 28.
Lyle Dowling. "He Sets the Style in Art, Joshing Good Old Iowa." Omaha World-Herald Sunday Magazine (May 10, 1931), p. 5, ill. (with the artist, in progress in his studio), calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
"Iowan's Art the Vogue." Kansas City Times (March 20, 1931), p. 3.
Adeline Taylor. "Grant Wood Hailed from West to Berlin as Discovery." Cedar Rapids Sunday Gazette and Republican (January 25, 1931), p. 4, ill. (with the artist, in progress in his studio).
"An Iowa Artist Discovers Iowa." Literary Digest 114 (August 13, 1932), pp. 13–14, ill.
Babette M. Becker. "Memphis-Owned Painting is Featured in Magazine." Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (August 14, 1932), section I, p. 9.
Marquis W. Childs. "The Artist in Iowa." Creative Art 10 (June 1932), p. 468, ill. p. 463.
Katherine Kelley. "Husbands See Painting; Twit D.A.R. Wives." Chicago Daily Tribune (August 8, 1934), p. 1.
"Shippers Start Dismantling Art Exhibition Today." Chicago Daily Tribune (November 1, 1934), p. 3.
Nan Sheets. "Art Institute's 1934 Paintings Rank Equally with Earlier Exhibit." Daily Oklahoman (July 8, 1934), p. C4.
Adelin Hohlfeld. "Artist, Whose Work Aroused D.A.R. Judges Exhibit, Here." Capital Times (Madison, Wisc.) (November 12, 1934), p. 5, calls it "Paul Revere's Ride".
Royal Cortissoz. "The Art Collection Organized for 'A Century of Progress'." New York Herald Tribune (June 3, 1934), ill. p. 8.
Eleanor Jewett. "Seven Centuries of Religious Painting Represented by 77 Splendid Canvases at World's Fair Art Exhibit." Chicago Sunday Tribune (August 19, 1934), part 8, p. 4, calls it "Ride of Paul Revere".
Adeline Taylor. "Easterners Look Wistfully at Midwest as Nation's Art Crown Brought to It; Grant Wood Lionized on N.Y. Visit." Cedar Rapids Gazette (October 21, 1934), p. 4, calls it 'Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
"Grant Wood, Cedar Rapids Painter, Says Art for Art's Sake Is Dead." Kansas City Star (October 31, 1934), p. 22, ill., calls it "Paul Revere's Ride".
M. K. P. "A Trio of Midwestern Artists Finds Inspiration in Native Environments." Kansas City Star (December 27, 1934), p. 18, calls it "Paul Revere".
"Grant Wood Show Opens." New York Times (April 16, 1935), p. 19.
E [dward]. A [lden]. J [ewell]. "Grant Wood, Iowa Artist: His Collected Work at Ferargil Reveals Development of Painter From Youth." New York Times (April 21, 1935), p. X9, ill.
Edward Alden Jewell. "'Savage' Paintings by Kopman Shown... — Paintings by Grant Wood at Ferargil's." New York Times (April 9, 1935), p. 17.
H[elen]. A[ppleton]. R[ead]. "Grant Wood's Americana Seen at the Ferargil Galleries." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (April 28, 1935), ill. p. 33.
"Grant Wood's Pictures: An Auspicious Figure in Contemporary American Art." New York Herald Tribune (April 21, 1935), p. D10.
Park Rinard and Arnold Pyle. Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Grant Wood. Exh. cat., Lakeside Press Galleries. Chicago, 1935, pp. 7–8, 24, no. 39, ill. p. 25.
Adelin Hohlfeld. "All Around the Town." Capital Times (Madison, Wisc.) (February 18, 1935), p. 7, calls it "Paul Revere's Ride".
Pittsburgh Press (November 14, 1937), p. 8, ill.
"PIX Previews the International Art Exhibit." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (October 13, 1937), p. 14, ill.
Jeanette Jena. "Art in Transitional Stage, International Exhibit Reveals." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (October 14, 1937), p. 28.
Jerry Bywaters. "Contemporary American Artists..." Southwest Review 23 (April 1938), p. 303, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
"Grant Wood: Brilliant Painter of the Mid-Western Scene." London Studio 15 (February 1938), pp. 91–92, ill.
L. H. R. "American Scene." New York Times (February 22, 1942), ill. p. SM14.
Eleanor Jewett. "Institute Opens American Art Exhibit Today." Chicago Daily Tribune (October 28, 1942), p. 21.
"Art in the Museums." New York Herald Tribune (March 1, 1942), p. E8.
"Chicago Honors Memory of Grant Wood." Art Digest 17 (November 1, 1942), p. 6.
Florence S. Berryman. "News and Comment: Grant Wood Commemorated in Chicago." Magazine of Art 35 (November 1942), p. 268.
John Fabian Kienitz. "Grant Wood." Art News 41 (January 1–14, 1943), p. 50.
"Grant Wood: Iowa's No. 1 Artist Who Died Last Winter Gets Big Retrospective Show in Chicago." Life 14 (January 18, 1943), p. 54, ill. (color).
Darrell Garwood. Artist in Iowa: A Life of Grant Wood. New York, 1944, pp. 130, 133, 138–39, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 53.
"The Grant Wood $15,000 Painting." Des Moines Sunday Register (October 15, 1950), ill. p. 17 (color).
"Grant Wood Painting Bought for $15,000." New York Times (June 22, 1950), p. 25.
Doris Brian. "The Metropolitan's American Policy—A Long View, No Blind Flying." Art Digest 24 (July 1, 1950), p. 7.
"Grant Wood Painting Purchased by the Metropolitan Museum." New York Herald Tribune (June 22, 1950), p. 3, ill., calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
"Metropolitan Pays $15,000 for Grant Wood Painting." Cedar Rapids Gazette (June 21, 1950), p. 11, ill.
Guy Northrop Jr. "Goochs' Gift Aids Y.W.C.A. and the Public." Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (July 9, 1950), section V, p. 3, calls it "Paul Revere's Ride".
"Art: The 200." Time 56 (July 3, 1950), p. 48, ill.
"Editorials: High Tribute to an Artist." Iowa City Press-Citizen (June 22, 1950), p. 4.
Arthur Millier. "Art Masterpieces Lent for Exhibit." Los Angeles Times (June 17, 1951), p. 11.
"Metropolitan Museum Paintings Being Displayed Here at City Hall." Lincoln Heights Bulletin-News (Los Angeles) (July 5, 1951), p. 3.
"American Oils on Exhibit at Tower Gallery." Van Nuys News (July 12, 1951), p. 38.
Herman Reuter. "At the Art Galleries: L.A. Seeing Metropolitan Museum of Art." Citizen-News (Hollywood) (June 30, 1951), p. 10.
Emily Genauer. "Art and Artists: Dealer Reminisces as Gallery Closes." New York Herald Tribune (July 5, 1953), p. D4, calls it "Paul Revere's Ride".
Robert Beverly Hale. "American Painting 1754–1954." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 12 (March 1954), pp. 180–81, ill. p. 189.
"As They Saw It: Three From the '30s." Time 63 (March 1, 1954), p. 72, ill. p. 73 (color), calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
"Sidelines." New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine (April 11, 1954), p. 2, ill. (front cover, detail).
Donald Key. "The Arts in Cedar Rapids." Cedar Rapids Gazette (November 6, 1955), p. 17, ill. (with the artist, in progress in his studio).
J[ames]. J. R[orimer]. "Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 16 (Summer 1957), ill. front cover (color).
Alexander Eliot. Three Hundred Years of American Painting. New York, 1957, p. 218, ill. p. 216 (color), calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Dorothy Adlow. "Metropolitan's New Look." Christian Science Monitor (October 26, 1957), p. 10.
"Art News International." Art News 58 (September 1959), p. 7, calls it "Paul Revere".
Irma Simonton Black. "Students' Page: America in Art." Art in America 49, no. 1 (1961), p. 88, ill. p. 89 (color), calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 97–98, ill., calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Matthew Baigell. "Grant Wood Revisited." Art Journal 26 (Winter 1966–67), p. 120, fig. 6, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
David Lowenthal. "The American Scene." Geographical Review 58 (January 1968), p. 78, fig. 9.
Thomas P. F. Hoving. "Faces and Places—Paintings from the Met." Art in America 58 (March–April 1970), ill. p. 65, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, fig. 292, call it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Matthew Baigell. The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930's. New York, 1974, p. 110, fig. 63, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Jane De Hart Mathews. "Grant Wood's Vision of the American Scene." Reviews in American History 4 (December 1976), p. 590.
Kathleen Howard, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York, 1983, p. 418, no. 17, ill. (color).
Wanda M. Corn. "The Birth of a National Icon: Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 10 (1983), p. 268.
Greta Berman. "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision." Art Journal 43 (Winter 1983), p. 399, fig. 2 [reproduced with caption for fig. 1; erroneously identified as fig. 3].
Grace Glueck. "Whitney Museum Offers a 2d Look at Grant Wood." New York Times (June 17, 1983), p. C21.
Wanda M. Corn. Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Minneapolis, 1983, pp. 2, 86, 120, 167, no. 29, colorpl. 12.
Karal Ann Marling. "Don't Knock Wood." Art News 82 (September 1983), p. 97, ill. p. 99.
Robert Hughes. "Art: Scooting Back to Anamosa." Time 121 (June 27, 1983), p. 69.
Graham Beale. "Reviews: Wanda M. Corn, 'Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision'." Journal of American Studies 18 (August 1984), p. 297.
Calvin J. Goodman. "In Defense of Grant Wood and American Regionalism." American Artist 48 (May 1984), p. 75.
Donald B. Kuspit. "Grant Wood: Pathos of the Plain." Art in America 72 (March 1984), p. 143.
Leonard Everett Fisher. Masterpieces of American Painting. New York, 1985, pp. 144, 149, 221, no. 58, ill. pp. 148–49 (color).
Ross Woodrow in20th 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".
Elyse Topalian. "Modern Art in the Met." Apollo 124 (October 1986), p. 362, calls it "The Ride of Paul Revere".
James M. Dennis. Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1975). Columbia, Mo., 1986, pp. 12, 105, 109, 134, 238 n. 1 (Chapter 5), 241 n. 13, colorpl 14, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 9, The United States of America. New York, 1987, p. 129, colorpl. 96.
Paul Richard. "Mixing It Up At the Metropolitan: Standards & Surprises at the Museum's New Wallace Wing." Washington Post (February 1, 1987), p. F8, calls it "The Ride of Paul Revere".
Karal Ann Marling. George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture 1876–1986. Cambridge, Mass., 1988, pp. 360–61, fig. 11.29.
Matthew Baigell inAmerican Art, 1930–1970. Exh. cat., Galleria Lingotto, Turin. Milan, 1992, p. 46, ill. p. 98 (color).
David Hackett Fischer. Paul Revere's Ride. New York, 1994, pp. 332–33, ill.
James S. Horns and Helen Mar Parkin inGrant Wood: An American Master Revealed. Exh. cat., Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. Rohnert Park, Calif., 1995, pp. 80, 85–86, 104, no. 24, colorpl. 2, fig. 55 (photomicrograph of cross section of embedded paint).
James S. Martin inGrant Wood: An American Master Revealed. Exh. cat., Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. Rohnert Park, Calif., 1995, pp. 92–95.
James M. Dennis. Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry. Madison, Wisc., 1998, p. 41, fig. 17, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Barbara Haskell. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–1950. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1999, p. 230, fig. 446 (color).
Stella Paul. Twentieth-Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Resource for Educators. New York, 1999, pp. 71–73, ill. (detail and overall) and ill. p. 70 (color), calls it "The Ride of Paul Revere".
William H. Truettner inPicturing Old New England: Image and Memory. Ed. William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 122–23, 140 n. 30, 228, fig. 135, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Jane C. Milosch in Prestel Publishing. 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 (with the artist, in progress in his studio).
Sue Taylor. "Wood's American Logic." Art in America 94 (January 2006), pp. 87, 90.
Maggie Riechers. "Art and the American Story." Humanities 28 (September/October 2007), p. 8, ill. (color).
R. Tripp Evans. Grant Wood: A Life. New York, 2010, pp. 142–46, 148, 401, colorpl. 15, calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Sue Taylor. "Unmanning Grant Wood." ArtUS no. 31 (2011), p. 40.
Roberta Smith. "A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism." New York Times (January 9, 2015), p. C30.
Jason Weems. Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest. Minneapolis, 2015, p. 158.
Judith A. Barter inAmerica 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 inAmerica 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).
John Ott. "The Warp and Woof of the Archive." Archives of American Art Journal 55 (Spring 2016), pp. 51–53, discusses the American Artist Fabric created after this painting, commissioned in 1952 by the Associated American Artists.
Shirley Reece-Hughes in Barbara Haskell. Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2018, pp. 54–55, 57 n. 31.
Emily Braun in Barbara Haskell. Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2018, p. 73.
Barbara Haskell. Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 2018, pp. 20, 23, 259, colorpl. 41, ill. p. 200 (with the artist, in progress in his studio).
Erika Doss. "Grant Wood's Queer Parody: American Humor during the Great Depression." Winterthur Portfolio 52 (Spring 2018), pp. 26, 31–32, figs. 2 (with the artist, in progress in his studio), 29 (color), calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Roberta Smith. "Grant Wood at the Whitney Both Thrills and Disappoints." nytimes.com. March 15, 2018, ill. (color).
David Anfam. "Exhibitions. 'Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables'." Burlington Magazine 160 (June 2018), p. 502.
Max Hollein. Modern and Contemporary Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2019, ill. p. 52 (color).
Sue Taylor. Grant Wood's Secrets. Newark, Del., 2020, pp. 168, 170–71, 175, fig. 4.14 (color), calls it "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere".
Lauren Rosati. "Framing Thomas Wilfred's Lumia: Museums, Intermedia and the Problem with Painting." Journal of Curatorial Studies 12, no. 2 (2023), p. 112 n. 20.
Susan Tallman. "How American Eyes Got Modern." New York Review of Books 71 (May 9, 2024), p. 34.
Grant Wood (American, Anamosa, Iowa 1892–1942 Iowa City, Iowa)
1939
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