Thomas Hart Benton
(American, 1889-1975)

"The Hymn Singer: Burl Ives", 1950

lithograph on paper
pencil-signed lower right margin, and signed in plate lower right.
Twayne Publishers, Fath 74.
Matted, glazed and framed.
image 16" x 12-1/4", framed 23-1/2" x 19-1/2"

Notes: Both Midwesterners, Thomas Hart Benton and Burl Ives became friends as they both focused on the American Scene of the 1930s and 1940s. Ives traveled the country collecting and performing folk songs while Benton created paintings and prints of American life.

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