Haystack
Artist
Thomas Hart Benton
(American, 1889 - 1975)
Date1938
MediumLithograph
DimensionsPlate: 10 1/8 × 12 3/4 inches (25.73 × 32.39 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 3/16 inches (31.12 × 41.12 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 3/16 inches (31.12 × 41.12 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Peter T. Bohan
Object number64-34/4
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelBenton’s search for the “real America” found him rambling throughout the country, stopping along roadsides to sketch. Many of the people and places he encountered were immortalized by his lithographs, sometimes years after he originally encountered them. A decade after Benton made a drawing of anonymous men on a North Carolina farm as they pitched cut hay into a haystack, he returned to the image to create this print. Haystack is one of many lithographs by Benton that celebrate American productivity and honest labor.
Copyright© Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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