Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

182 c THOMAS HART BENTON Slow Train Through Arkansas . Lithograph, 1941. 255x326 mm; 10x12 3 / 4 inches, full margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A superb impression with strong contrasts. Benton’s (1889-1975) lithograph is based on an excerpt from Thomas W. Jackson’s 1903 collection of humorous stories, On a Slow Train through Arkansas. He also made a painting of this scene around the same time, which is now in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville. Jackson’s story reads, “It was down in Arkansas I rode the slowest train I ever saw. It stopped at every house. When it came to a double house, it stopped twice. They made so many stops I said, ‘Conductor, what have we stopped for now?’ He said, ‘There are some cattle on the track.’ We ran a little ways further and stopped again. I said, ‘What is the matter now?’ He said, ‘We have caught up with those cattle again.’” Fath 46. [3,000/5,000] 183  THOMAS HART BENTON White Calf . Lithograph, 1945. 250x321 mm; 9 7 / 8 x12 5 / 8 inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good impression. Fath 67. [1,500/2,500] 182