Frankie and Johnny
Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889 - 1975
1936
Lithograph on wove paper
Edition of 100
Image: 16 7/16 × 22 1/8 in. (41.8 × 56.2 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/8 × 23 11/16 in. (49.2 × 60.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert McGrath
PR.973.239
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, in graphite, lower right margin: Benton; signed, in stone, lower right: Benton.
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
Alcohol in Art, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 22-March 28, 1982, in conjunction with the conference "Alcohol at Dartmouth".
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.
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. 3.
Catalogue Raisonne
C. Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, 1979, no.11.
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