Sep 20, 2012 - Sale 2286

Sale 2286 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
Island Hay.

Lithograph, 1945. 250x320 mm; 9 3/4x12 1/2 inches. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, dark impression.

This is a view of farmers using scythes to cut hay on Martha's Vineyard, based on a drawing Benton made in the 1920s. Fath 68.