Thomas Hart Benton

Sawing the Log

c. 1929

Two men wearing hats saw through a large fallen tree in a forest.
Two men wearing hats saw through a large fallen tree in a forest.

Thomas Hart Benton, Sawing the Log, c. 1929. Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.2 × 29.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.496. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Date
c. 1929

Classification
Drawings

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

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.2 × 29.8 cm)

Accession number
31.496

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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artworks/2651




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