Nov 02, 2023 - Sale 2651

Sale 2651 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
Island Hay.

Lithograph, 1945. 251x316 mm; 9 7/8x12 1/2 inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, dark impression.

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. Fath 68.