THOMAS HART BENTON (1889 - 1975) Wreck of the Ol'97.
Lithograph, 1944. 262x380 mm; 10⅜x15 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. Fath 63.
The "Ol' 97," a Southern Railway locomotive, officially known as the Fast Mail, was en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, when it derailed at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, in September of 1903.
