Description
Edge of Town, 1938
Artist: Thomas Hart Benton
Lithograph
8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
Signed in pencil lower right
Benton was considered the most important artist of the American scene. His uncle was a senator and his father a congressman. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academie, Paris. He and his family lived in Kansas City and NY, where he taught Jackson Pollock, among others.