Description
Departure of the Joads, 1939
Artist: Thomas Hart Benton
Lithograph
18 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches
Signed in pencil lower right
Thomas Hart Benton is one of the most important painters of the American Scene movement. Benton is known for making his works uniquely American and signatured in regionalist motifs with laboring figures. Along with many murals he also painted landscapes and portraits.