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THOMAS HART BENTON Huck Finn.
Lithograph, 1936. 415x550 mm; 16 1/4x21 5/8 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A superb, richly-inked impression of this large, important lithograph, with strong contrasts.
According to Benton, "Every two or three years I reread Mark Twain's great saga from start to finish, finding it as fresh as when I first read it. With the spirits of Huck and Jim pushing me I have been up and down the Mississippi many times. Though I traveled on big boats rather than intimately by raft I like to believe I've caught glimpes of them. I'm certain they're still there behind some island or up some creek." Fath 12.
