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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) Prayer Meeting, 1949 Lithograph on paper 9" x 12 ¼" (image) Edition of 300   Pencil-signed to the bottom right margin. Commissioned and distributed by the University of Kansas City. The sheet measures 12" x 16" and the glazed frame measures 17" x 21".   Of Prayer Meeting, Benton wrote: “Wednesday evening is prayer meeting time, in the mid week, over all of the "Bible belt." The scene could be anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line."   Literature: Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, 2001 (third edition), University of Texas Press/ Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (San Francisco), 73.