Oct 17, 2024 - Sale 2682

Sale 2682 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
THOMAS HART BENTON
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 (1889-1975) made in the mid-1920s.