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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) Edge of Town, 1938 Lithograph on GCM paper 10 ¾” x 9” (image) Edition of 250   Pencil-signed to the bottom right margin. Circulated by Associated American Artists, New York City. The sheet measures 12" x 16" and the glazed frame measures 16 ½" x 22".   Of Edge of Town, Benton wrote: “Drawing made of the outskirts of a small town on the banks of the Missouri River northwest of Kansas City. As can be seen the steam engine was still in use when I did it.”   Literature: Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, 2001 (third edition), University of Texas Press/ Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (San Francisco), 22.