Description: 7TH ANNUAL SUMMER SALE NOW *Price Shown is the Sale Price ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............THOMAS HART BENTON............'IN FROM THE FIELDS', LITHOGRAPH ON PAPER, 9.5" x 13"............ This is a 9.5" x 13" Original and Vintage lithograph on paper by the very important Kansas painter, draftsman and printmaker Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975. This lithograph shows a farm with workers coming in from the fields. Signed at lower right in pencil. Fine condition. Unframed, matted. The Biography Follows: A keen observer of the absurdity of the human condition, Mabel Dwight is best known for her lightly satirical depictions of life in New York City and has been called "the Master of the Comedie Humaine" (Rubinstein 224). She captured the tragic and comic side of people living in cities, many of them on velvety lithographs where she used a crayon technique to create white shapes against dark backgrounds--parodies of the human situation. She also did portraits and architectural prints. She has been labelled an American Scene painter, a colleague of Wanda Gag and Rockwell Kent. She was born in Cincinnati, raised in New Orleans, and studied art in San Francisco at the Hopkins Art School where she was a contemporary of California decorative artist Lucia Matthews. However, Dwight's work gives no indication of that influence. She became a socialist and full of religious fervor, ever championing the underdog in society. She believed that poverty was the great disease and was totally unnecessary in modern times. She traveled extensively in Europe but did not come into her own style until she was in her fifties. In Paris, she worked with the French printer, Cuchatel, and made lithographs of the city which led to her commitment to that medium. In the United States, she became known for her dark lithographs of city life, and between 1935 and 1939, did prints and watercolors for the Federal Art Project. As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.
Price: 2500 USD
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
End Time: 2024-12-12T04:00:12.000Z
Shipping Cost: 15 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Thomas Hart Benton
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Artist
Size: Medium
Item Length: 13 in
Region of Origin: Kansas
Framing: Framed
Personalize: No
Year of Production: 1930
Item Height: 9.5 in
Style: Social Realist
Features: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Unit Quantity: One
Culture: American
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
Image Orientation: Landscape
Signed: Yes
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Title: In From The Fields
Material: Paper
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Subject: Farm
Type: Print
Theme: Pastoral
Production Technique: Lithography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
