Thomas Hart Benton

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Thomas Hart Benton, Homecoming-kaw Valley, 1951

Lithograph, 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

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Thomas Hart Benton, Photographing the Bull, 1950

Lithograph, 11 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (30.2 x 42.9 cm)

Edition of 500
Fath, 75
Circulated by Twayne Publishers

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Thomas Hart Benton, The Hymn Singer, 1950

Lithograph, 16 x 12 3/8 in. (40.6 x 31.4 cm)

Ed. 500
Circulated by Twayne Publishers, New York City

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Thomas Hart Benton, Back from the Fields, 1945

Lithograph, 12 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (32.7 x 23.3 cm)

Illustrated: Fath, pg. 152, no. 66
"This is a Louisiana Scene. Cotton pickers returning home with the last bags picked" THB.

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Thomas Hart Benton, Back From the Fields, 1945

Lithograph, 12 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (32.7 x 23.3 cm)

Illustrated: Fath, pg. 152, no. 66
"This is a Louisiana Scene. Cotton pickers returning home with the last bags picked" THB.

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Thomas Hart Benton, Island Hay, 1945

Lithograph, 10 x 12 5/8 in. (25.4 x 32.1 cm)

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Thomas Hart Benton, Loading Corn (Shucking Corn), 1945

Lithograph, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (33.7 x 26 cm)

llustrated: Fath pg. 150, no. 65
"Autumn in Missouri. To be seen on most mill farms. The problem with these subjects is no to find them, but to find them in a picotorally workable setting" THB

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Thomas Hart Benton, White Calf, 1945

Lithograph, 10 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. (27 x 33.7 cm)

Edition 16/20
Illustrated: Fath, pg. 154, no. 67
"Henry Look of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard milking his cow. Henry had a good deal selling his milk until some prying summer person found him sharing it in his snot filled handkerchief. Trade with Henry dropped off after that." THB

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Thomas Hart Benton, White Calf, 1945

Lithograph, 10 5/8 x 13 1/4 in.

Edition 16/20
Illustrated: Fath, pg. 154, no. 67
"Henry Look of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard milking his cow. Henry had a good deal selling his milk until some prying summer person found him sharing it in his snot filled handkerchief. Trade with Henry dropped off after that." THB

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Thomas Hart Benton, Morning Train (Soldier's Farewell), 1943

Lithograph, 13 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (34.3 x 23.8 cm)

(Fath 1979, No. 75)

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Thomas Hart Benton, Night Firing (Tobacco Firing), 1943

Lithograph, 8 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. (22.2 x 33.7 cm)

Illustrated: Fath, pg. 134, no. 57
"Drawing made in 1943 in North Carolina - part of a series of the Tobacco industry made at the request of American Tobacco Co. The shed is where the tobacco is dried out with night and day slow fires beneath. There is a painting of this owned by Mr. and Mrs. Constable of Kansas City." THB

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Thomas Hart Benton, Aaron, 1941

Lithograph, 9 7/16 x 12 7/8 in. (24 x 32.7 cm)

Fath 42

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Thomas Hart Benton, Frisky Day, 1939

Lithograph, 12 1/16 x 7 13/16 in. (30.6 x 19.8 cm)

Illustrated: Fath, pg. 80, no. 30
"Young ever in the spring, South Missouri. Farm Country." THB
The lithograph was a study for a painting Frisky Daya which was made in 1940. The painting is in the collection of Mrs. W. Gates Llyod.

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Thomas Hart Benton, Frisky Day, 1939

Lithograph, 12 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (30.6 x 18.3 cm)

Illustrated: Fath, pg. 80, no. 30
"Young ever in the spring, South Missouri. Farm Country." THB
The lithograph was a study for a painting Frisky Daya which was made in 1940. The painting is in the collection of Mrs. W. Gates Llyod.

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Thomas Hart Benton, Night Firing (Tobacco Firing), 1939

Lithograph, 12 1/16 x 7 13/16 in. (30.6 x 19.8 cm)

IlIllustrated: Fath, pg. 134, no. 57
"Drawing made in 1943 in North Carolina - part of a series of the Tobacco industry made at the request of American Tobacco Co. The shed is where the tobacco is dried out with night and day slow fires beneath. There is a painting of this owned by Mr. and Mrs. Constable of Kansas City." THB