THRESHING

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Thomas Hart Benton
THRESHING
1941

About the Item

THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975) THRESHING 1941 (Fath 48) Lithograph, signed in pencil lower right and in the stone lower left of image. Image 9 3/8 x 13. From the Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists, with the AAA label. Sheet 11 ¼ x 15 ¾ inches.Typical smaller margins that occur with AAA framed prints. In generally good condition save for a small repaired tear in the upper sheet edge far from the image, an ever so slight trace of a mat line. Missing small tips at the lower sheet edge. A couple of small specks on verso. This is one of Benton’s best regionalist compositions. There is a painting of the same subject in reverse at the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana. Their website states the following: “Threshing wheat was once a familiar scene in late summer in the Wabash Valley and still takes place today, though similar activities of harvesting hay and straw are more common now. What isn’t seen now is the steam-powered equipment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the type of equipment shown in Thomas Hart Benton’s “Threshing Wheat,” one of the cornerstones of the Swope Art Museum’s collection…… “Threshing Wheat” is one of three canvases of similar themes, and it captures the scene of a steam engine thresher working a Midwestern field. Benton’s “aesthetic emotion” was demonstrated in the stylization of earth and human forms and the related rhythms of the sky and earth, one critic noted. Since the threshing equipment seen here was rapidly being replaced by more advanced technologies, this image can be seen as a bit more nostalgic, precisely the kind of subject that appealed to the average American and that made Thomas Hart Benton art so popular”. WPA, Regionalism, Americana, Farms, Wheat

Creator:
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975, American)
Creation Year:
1941
Dimensions:
Height: 9.375 in (23.82 cm)Width: 13.25 in (33.66 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
American Realist
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Santa Monica, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU41139549782