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Plowing it Under

1934

Thomas Hart Benton

Associated Names

Thomas Hart Benton

Artist, American, 1889 - 1975

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

Associated American Artists

Publisher

The image shows a man wearing a hat and holding onto a plow being pulled by a horse. The background consists of a high horizon with a small rocky formation to the left. The painting features expressive brushstrokes with bold lines defining the figures and landscape, and lighter strokes indicating motion and texture. The color palette is monochromatic, using shades of black, white, and gray for depth and contrast.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
Dimensions

image: 20.3 × 33.7 cm (8 × 13 1/4 in.)
sheet: 25.1 × 38.4 cm (9 7/8 × 15 1/8 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.15
Catalogue Raisonné

Fath 1979, no. 8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Bibliography

1969

Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969, pp. 36-37, no. 8.

1979

Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 36-37, no. 8.

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. 11, no. 2.

Inscriptions

lower right on stone: Benton

Wikidata ID

Q76440153

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