Lithograph, 1955. 317x420 mm; 12 1/2x16 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 75 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce lithograph.
Benton (1889-1975) used the imagery of horses running with a steam train— horsepower against man-made power, the old versus the new— in two lithographs, this work and The Race, 1942 (see Fath 56), as well as in several oil paintings. Fath 78.
