May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 361

Unsold
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
THOMAS HART BENTON
Running Horses.

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.