The Farmer's Daughter
Thomas Hart Benton, The Farmer's Daughter, 1944, lithograph on cream wove paper, Gift of Dudley and Phyllis Church, © artist or other rights holder, 89.26
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- Title
The Farmer's Daughter
- Artist
- Related People
printer: George C. Miller (American, 1894-1965)
publisher: Associated American Artists (American, established 1934)
- Date
1944
- Medium
lithograph on cream wove paper
- Edition
edition of 250
- Catalogue Raisonné
Fath 62; Windisch and Cole 581
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 9 3/4 in x 13 5/16 in; sheet: 11 1/2 in x 15 1/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Benton, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Dudley and Phyllis Church
- Accession Number
89.26
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
In his book The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Benton described this scene of a tenant farmer's house in northern Missouri by stating:
Along the dirt roads that run at various angles off the highways of central Missouri, there are hundreds of houses which look just like this one. The little children 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.
- Exhibitions
2019 Associated American Artists: Prints for the People Portland Art Museum