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THOMAS HART BENTON Repairing the Sloop.
Lithograph, 1973. 353x455 mm; 13 7/8x17 7/8 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 250. Signed and inscribed "OK this proof" in pencil, lower margin. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, well-inked impression of this large print.
This image shows Benton's son doing repairs on his boat. His son had built the sloop during the 1960s and then sailed it from Martha's Vineyard to Florida, where he lived until returning to the Vineyard with the sloop in 1973 and undertaking necessary repairs. Fath 88.
