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

184  THOMAS HART BENTON Threshing . Lithograph, 1941. 237x353 mm; 9 3 / 8 x14 inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A superb, strong impression. This lithograph relates to a series of drawings and a painting (now in the Swope Art Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana). Benton made in 1938 on a farm in Johnson County, Kansas, around 25 miles outside Kansas City. Fath 48. [4,000/6,000] 185 c THOMAS HART BENTON Island Hay . Lithograph, 1945. 251x316 mm; 9 7 / 8 x12 1 / 2 inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, dark impression. As the title references, this lithograph represents a farming scene on Martha’s Vineyard, where the small, uneven, rocky 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] 186  THOMAS HART BENTON Loading Corn. Lithograph, 1945. 242x325 mm; 9 1 / 2 x12 3 / 4 inches, wide margins. Edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A very good, dark impression. Fath 65. [1,500/2,500] 184