Thomas Hart Benton

Logging Train

1928

A steam locomotive pulls a flatcar loaded with large logs through a forest logging camp.
A steam locomotive pulls a flatcar loaded with large logs through a forest logging camp.

Thomas Hart Benton, Logging Train, 1928. Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet (Irregular): 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.491. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Date
1928

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
31.491

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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