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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) Benton Farm, 1972 Lithograph on paper 11 ‚Öú" x 14 ‚Öú" (image) Edition of 250   Pencil-signed to the bottom right margin. Circulated by Associated American Artists, New York City. The sheet measures 16" x 19 ¼” and the glazed frame measures 21 ½" x 24 ½".   Of Benton Farm, Benton wrote: "Our daughter belongs to one of these youth groups, or communes, which have sprung up over the United States in the late years. They represent a sort of protest against the stultifying conventions overtaking so much of society. A number of those in her group wanted to try farming and found a good farm for sale out in mid Kansas. We bought this, two hundred and eighty one acres, and let them have a crack at running it. They are doing extraordinarily well. Though on the edge of the great plains the country in this particular area of Kansas is broken. There are ridges and bottom lands and spring fed creeks. Here's the barn, and the road out of the Benton farm."   Literature: Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, 2001 (third edition), University of Texas Press/ Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (San Francisco), 87.