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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

Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975)

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

dwellings

lithography

planographic printing

planographic prints

portraits

Regionalist

wells

wove paper

Description

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.

History
Exhibitions

2019 Associated American Artists: Prints for the People Portland Art Museum

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