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Death on the Ridge Road

Artist Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942)
Copy Right Holder VAGA at Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Copy Right Holder The Estate of the Artist
Date1935
Dimensions32 1/8 × 39 1/16 × 1 5/16 in. (81.6 × 99.2 × 3.3 cm)
frame: 39 1/8 × 46 × 4 in. (99.4 × 116.8 × 10.2 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineGift of Cole Porter
Terms
  • death
  • road
  • cars
  • truck
  • telephone pole
  • fields
  • fence
  • landscape
Object number47.1.3
Inscribedl.l. in oil: GRANT WOOD 1935 c [c encircled]
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceThe artist; to Ferargil Galleries, New York, 1935; to Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, 1937; to Cole Porter, 1937; to present collection, 1947
Exhibitions
Approaching Storm
Grant Wood
1940
March
Grant Wood
1939
The Shriners
Grant Wood
1939
Untitled
Joseph M. Wood III
after 1950