Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 435

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
THOMAS HART BENTON
After the Blow.

Lithograph, 1946. 250x355 mm; 9 3/4x14 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.

According to Benton, "In one of the hurricanes which hit Martha's Vineyard in the early [19]40s this schooner came ashore. A life line is being thrown to the men still aboard." Fath 70.