Nov 02, 2017 - Sale 2460

Sale 2460 - Lot 334

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
Cradling Wheat.

Lithograph, 1939. 246x306 mm; 9 3/4x12 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good impression with strong contrasts.

This lithographof a farming scene in the hill country of East Tennessee derives from a trip Benton made to the area in 1928. He also executed a painting of the scene, which is now in the St. Louis Museum of Art. Fath 27.