Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

334 c THOMAS HART BENTON Cradling Wheat . Lithograph, 1939. 246x306 mm; 9 3 / 4 x12 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good impression with strong contrasts. This lithograph of a farming scene in the hill country of East Tennessee derives from a trip Benton made to the area in 1928. He also executed a painting of the scene, which is now in the St. Louis Museum of Art. Fath 27. [4,000/6,000] 335 c THOMAS HART BENTON The Woodpile . Lithograph, 1939. 225x277 mm; 8 3 / 4 x10 7 / 8 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, dark impression. Fath 31. [1,500/2,500] 336 c THOMAS HART BENTON Island Hay . Lithograph, 1945. 255x322 mm; 10x12 5 / 8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A superb, dark impression. As the title references, this lithograph represents a farming scene on Martha’s Vineyard, where the small, uneven, rock impeded fields were still cut with scythes. The lithograph is based on a drawing and painting of the same subject that Benton made in the mid-1920s. Fath 68. [2,000/3,000] 335