THOMAS HART BENTON \"Island Hay\" Pencil Signed Original Lithograph 1945 For Sale

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THOMAS HART BENTON \"Island Hay\" Pencil Signed Original Lithograph 1945:
$3825.00

Artwork Details

Artist: Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975)
Year: 1945
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Edition: Published in an edition of 250 by the Associated American Artists, New York
Museum Collections: Held by major institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, theMetropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Subject and Background

The Scene: The artwork depicts a rural farming setting on Martha\'s Vineyard, featuring three farmers working in an uneven, rocky field near a body of water with a distant barn. Two men cut hay with scythes while a third kneels in the foreground to drink water from a dipper.
Inspiration: The print is based on earlier drawings and paintings that Benton created during the mid-1920s while spending summers at his family home on Martha\'s Vineyard.
Significance: It marks one of the final lithographs created during Benton\'s prolific printmaking period between 1929 and 1945, capturing the core themes of American Regionalism through the dignity of physical labor and ordinary rural life.

THOMAS HART BENTON \"Island Hay\" Pencil Signed Original Lithograph 1945 For Sale

THOMAS HART BENTON \"Island Hay\" Pencil Signed Original Lithograph 1945: $3825.00

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