Fire in the Barnyard
Thomas hart benton lithograph
Edition Size:
Limited edition of 250
Published By:
Circulated by Associated American Artists, New York City.
Year:
1944
Sheet Size:
13 3/8″ x 8 3/4″
Signature:
Pencil signed in the lower margin.
Literature:
The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton by Creekmore Fath. (Fath #64)
Fire in the Barnyard Lithograph Value:
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“This picture was made from a memory of my childhood. My grandfather ‘Pappy’ Wise had a cotton farm a few miles, 5 or 6, out of Waxahachie, Texas and one night when I was about 7 or 8 years old a great light appeared in the sky. It was so great that speculation about the end of the world was bruited about among the grown folks at the farm. As it turns out a straw stack had caught fire on an adjoining farm and some small tool sheds and part of a fence was burned. We all visited the place next morning and heard tell of how the farmer and his sons had got the scared horses of the the barn. Such things are immensely impressive to young uns.”
-Thomas Hart Benton
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