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

343 c THOMAS HART BENTON Wreck of the Ol’ 97 . Lithograph, 1944. 263x382 mm; 10 3 / 8 x15 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A brilliant, dark impression with strong contrasts. The “Ol’ 97,” a Southern Railway locomotive, officially known as the Fast Mail, was en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, when it derailed at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, in September of 1903. Fath 63. [10,000/15,000] 344 c THOMAS HART BENTON The Corral . Lithograph, 1948. 247x352 mm; 9 3 / 4 x13 7 / 8 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. According to Benton, this lithograph was based on a 1939 drawing he made in western Nebraska, during a trip through the Plains region with U.S. Army personnel to buy quarter horses for the French light artillery in World War II. Fath 71. [2,500/3,500] 345 c THOMAS HART BENTON Sorghum Mill . Lithograph, 1969. 246x350 mm; 9 3 / 4 x13 3 / 4 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph. Though Fath calls for an edition of 250, we have found only 11 impressions at auction in the past 30 years, likely indicating a likely smaller edition. Fath 81. [2,000/3,000] 343