The Farmer's Daughter
Artist
Thomas Hart Benton
(American, 1889 - 1975)
Date1944
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 9 7/8 × 13 1/8 inches (25.08 × 33.34 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert M. White II in honor of his father, L. Mitchell White
Object numberF97-2/10
Signedin pencil lower right margin
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFarm scene with house and tree to right, dog in the foreground. Also in foreground to the left is a young girl at a well, pumping water. Rolling hills in the background.Gallery Label"Along the dust roads that run at various angles off the highways of central Missouri, there are hundreds of houses which look like this one. The tenant farmers who occupy them…always have little children who play around the houses while the grownups work the fields. Even when the women folk are in the kitchen, the children of these places look lonely, lonely like the places themselves. The little girl who works the pump is doing so, “just because.” For the moment there is nothing else to do." —Thomas Hart Benton
Associated American Artists
Copyright© Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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