Slow Train through Arkansas, 1941 (published 1942)

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 25.4 × 32.23 cm (10 × 12 11/16 in.)

sheet: 32.39 × 39.37 cm (12 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

Fath 1979, no. 46

Accession Number

2015.19.1101

Artists / Makers

Thomas Hart Benton (artist) American, 1889 - 1975

George C. Miller (printer) American, 1894 - 1966

Associated American Artists (publisher)

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Inscription

lower left on stone: Benton; lower right in graphite: Benton; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Slow Train Through Arkansas; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: I

Marks and Labels

stamped lower right verso in gray ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1977: American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 45

Bibliography

1969: Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969, pp. 112-113, no. 46.

1979: Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 112-113, no. 46.

2016: Windisch, Gail, and Sylvan Cole, Jr. Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs. Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2016, p. 60, no. 486.