Slow Train through Arkansas

1941 (published 1942)

Thomas Hart Benton

Artist, American, 1889 - 1975

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

Associated American Artists

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1101

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fath 1979, no. 46

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q77008902

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