Island Hay
Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889 - 1975
1945
Lithograph on wove paper
250
Image: 10 × 12 5/8 in. (25.4 × 32 cm)
Sheet: 11 11/16 × 14 5/16 in. (29.7 × 36.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
PR.958.83
Publisher
Associated American Artists, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on stone, lower left: Benton; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Benton; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: [cut off]
Course History
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.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12 - July 22, 2022.
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, listed no. 6, ill. fig. 1.
Provenance
Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1958.
Catalogue Raisonne
C. Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, 1979, no. 68.
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