About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Thomas Hart Benton
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Title
- Departure of the Joads, from The Grapes of Wrath
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1939
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Medium
- Lithograph on ivory wove paper
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. H. S. Perkins
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Reference Number
- 1972.782
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