Edge of Town

Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889 - 1975

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1938

Lithograph on wove paper

250

Image: 8 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (22.6 × 27.3 cm)

Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 in. (30.1 × 40.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Appleton 1792 Memorial Fund

PR.938.10

Printer

George C. Miller

Publisher

Associated American Artists, New York

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, on stone, lower left: Benton; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Benton; Watermark, lower left: GCM

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

Exhibition History

Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995.

On the Road, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 11-February 8, 1984.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, no. 2, ill. 9.

Provenance

Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1938.

Catalogue Raisonne

C. Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, 1979, no. 22.

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