Artist: Thomas Hart Benton
Title: Instruction
Size: 12.5 x 16.25
Medium: Lithograph On Paper
Edition: of 250 (Fath, 41)
Year: 1940
Notes: Signed, Dated and Titled on Verso. Good Condition. Gallery COA Included.
About: Published by Associated American Artists (New York). Pencil-signed "Benton" in the lower right margin. The sheet is sized 12 1/2" x 16 1/4", with deckled top and bottom edges. Custom Framed as Shown.
The following is Benton's own description of this image, as written in Creekmore Fath's essential The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton: "A painting of this was made in 1940 directly from life. One of my students at the K.C. Art Institute found the man selling snake medicine in the pool halls of 12th St. in downtown K.C. He caught rattle snakes and let them rot and ferment in gallon jars and sold the result as an aphrodisiac. He was also a preacher and conducted a Sunday school class. This picture shows him telling about The Bible."