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Thomas Hart Benton: American, 1889 - 1975

Twentieth-Century Fox Film Corporation

Departure of the Joads
The Grapes of Wrath (series)
1939: lithograph in black on wove paper; image: 32.54 x 46.99 cm (12 13/16 x 18 1/2 in.); sheet: 36.99 × 50.8 cm (14 9/16 × 20 in.); Fath 1979, no. 34; Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation; 2008.115.14; Not on View

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: To Patricia Syrett from Thomas H. Benton; lower right in graphite: Benton

Provenance

(Sotheby's, New York); Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT, 1971; purchased 2008 by NGA

Exhibition History

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 103.

Bibliography

1969: Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969, pp. 88-89, no. 34.

1979: Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 88-89, no. 34.

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