 Since the magazine never intended to purchase Curry's painting there has been little success finding documentation regarding the financial aspects of the commission.Curry's "Hoover and the Flood" was created to celebrate the humanitarian and relief efforts of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover before his presidential election in 1928.Curry's painting demonstrates many of the major scenes and events that were associated during the Mississippi Flood of 1927 such as flood waters, National Guardsmen, the Red Cross relief, refugees, stranded farm animals, praying African Americans and a Mississippi riverboat.