Threshing Scene
Threshing Scene
Threshing Scene

Art © T.H. and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Threshing Scene
Threshing Scene
Threshing Scene

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Threshing Scene

Thomas Hart Benton, 1889–1975; born Neosho, MO; died Kansas City, MO; active Paris, New York, and Kansas City
x1948-964

Information

Title
Threshing Scene
Maker
Thomas Hart Benton
Medium
Pen and black ink and brown wash over graphite
Dimensions
22.7 x 46.6 cm. (8 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-964
Signatures
Signed in black ink, lower right: Benton
Inscription
on verso, C.I. Blanc | Morrisville [crossed out] | Morse, La
Culture
American
Type
drawings
Materials
wash, wove paper, graphite, ink
Techniques
piercing
Subject
figures (representations), reaping machines, landscapes (representations), donkeys, truck tractors, automobiles

Purchased by Platt from Ferangil, 1937 according to pencil note verso.

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