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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
THOMAS HART BENTON New England Farm.
Lithograph, 1951. 230x354 mm; 9x14 inches, wide margins. Intended edition of 300, likely smaller. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by The Friends of Art of Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. A superb impression of this very scarce lithograph.
Accompanied by The Friends of Art of Kansas State University gift print document that was originally distributed with the lithograph.
We have found only 12 other impressions of this lithograph at auction in the past 30 years, indicating the intended edition of 300 was never fully realized.
Benton captioned the lithograph, "This is a haying scene on the Martha's Vineyard farm of Denys Wortman, famous NY newspaper cartoonist." Fath 76.
