Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889-1975
Departure of the Joads, from The Grapes of Wrath
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Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889-19751939
Departure of the Joads, from The Grapes of Wrath
Thomas Hart Benton American, 1889-1975 →lithographprint
Date
1939
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 32.7 × 47 cm (12 7/8 × 18 9/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 60.1 cm (15 7/8 × 23 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. H. S. Perkins
In 1939, Twentieth-Century Fox commissioned Benton to create six lithographs-with reproduction rights to a billboard-size reproduction-as a promotional ploy for its filming of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. One of these was the melancholy synopsis of destitute, migrant "Okies" from drought-stricken Oklahoma in The Departure of the Joads.
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