THOMAS HART BENTON (American, 1889-1975). Prayer Meeting - Merry Christmas from the Bentons, 1955. Offset lithograph aft...

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THOMAS HART BENTON (American, 1889-1975)
Prayer Meeting - Merry Christmas from the Bentons, 1955
Offset lithograph after a 1949 lithograph
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed in the plate lower left: Benton
Signed and dedicated by the artist on bottom margin: To Nanette - Bill ... - Xmas & New Year 1955 ... Thomas H. Benton
Inscription verso: Merry / Christmas / from the Bentons

Later in his life, Tom Benton together with his wife Rita sent handsigned offset lithographs made after some of the artist's stone lithographs as Christmas cards. This card of 1955 reproduces Benton's 1949 lithograph "Prayer Meeting" which was also known as "Wednesday Evening." The stone lithograph was commissioned by Clarence Decker, President of the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri, Kansas City. The lithograph was a study for a painting of the same name in the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Missouri. See Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin and London, 1969 and 1979, cat. no. 73.



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