May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 371

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
New England Farm.

Lithograph, 1951. 230x360 mm; 9x14 inches, full 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.

We have found only 6 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years, indicating the intended edition of 300 was never fully realized.

Benton captioned the lithograph as follows, "This is a haying scene on the Martha's Vineyard farm of Denys Wortman, famous NY newspaper cartoonist." Fath 76.