Thomas Hart Benton

Blast Furnace, Number 2

1929 or 1930

Workers pour molten metal into molds in a busy foundry with cranes and steam.
Workers pour molten metal into molds in a busy foundry with cranes and steam.

Thomas Hart Benton, Blast Furnace, Number 2, 1929 or 1930. Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 1/4 in. (32.7 × 23.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.487. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1929 or 1930

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 1/4 in. (32.7 × 23.5 cm)

Accession number
31.487

Credit line
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Rights and reproductions
© T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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