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| Lot 367: a Self-Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton. |
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| Lot 378: Benton's Wreck of the Ol' 97. |
Coming up for auction are The Race, 1942, based on the same-titled oil painting of a lone horse racing a steam engine across a barren Midwestern prairie; Wreck of the Ol' 97, 1944, depicting the derailment of the Southern Railway locomotive while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, in September of 1903; as well as drawings by Benton, including a Self-Portrait, lithographic crayon on paper, circa 1940, a gift from the artist to writer Selden Rodman, whom he knew from summers on Martha's Vineyard--Benton contributed several articles to a magazine Rodman edited called Common Sense.
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| Lot 388: John Steuart Curry's John Brown. |
Additional Regionalist works include John Steuart Curry's lithograph portrait of abolitionist John Brown, 1939and Grant Wood's Approaching Storm, lithograph, 1940.
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| Lot 381: Grant Wood's Approaching Storm |