GUEST: My husband found this
print that is called "July
Fifteenth," and that happens

to be our wedding anniversary.

So he said, "I have to get
you this print as a present."

So he was checking lots of
auctions, and every time he
tried to bid, he was outbid.

APPRAISER: When he was bidding
and not getting the print,
can I ask what he was bidding?

GUEST: He bid, like,
$3,000, $4,000, $5,000.

APPRAISER: Yup.

GUEST: And he was overbid.

Okay.

And then finally, in this
last auction, he only bid
$1,000, and we got it.

APPRAISER: Well, this is, as
you know, a lithograph by Grant
Wood named "July Fifteenth."

GUEST: Uh-huh.

APPRAISER: This was
actually printed in '38.

Now, Grant Wood was an American
Regionalist, and he was known
for scenes of Iowa-- although

he did study abroad, he spent
most of his career in Iowa--and
creating these wonderful

landscapes that, on the
one hand, were carefully
observed and accurate,
and on the other hand,

have this sort of surging,
undulating sort of style.

And we get a sense of
nature that's been made to
look energized and alive.

If we were to put this into
auction today, we would put it
into an American print sale,

and the estimate would be $5,000
to $7,000 in the current market.

GUEST: Okay, that's good,
that's good, thank you.