Apr 15 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2700 -

Sale 2700 - Lot 269

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889 - 1975)
Island Hay.

Lithograph, 1945. 251x320 mm; 9⅞x12⅝ inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Fath 68.

Additional Details

As the title references, this lithograph represents a farming scene on Martha's Vineyard, where the small, uneven, rocky fields were still cut with scythes. The lithograph is based on a drawing and painting of the same subject that Benton made in the mid-1920s.