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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) Slow Train through Arkansas, 1941 Lithograph on paper 12 ¾” x 10” (image) Edition of 250   Pencil-signed to the bottom right margin. Circulated by Associated American Artists, New York City. The sheet measures 12 ¼” x 14 ½” and the glazed frame measures 16 ¾" x 19 ¼".   Of Slow Train through Arkansas, Benton wrote: “Illustrates one of the stories in the old joke book ‘Slow Train through Arkansas.’ This book was a popular sales item on most of the trains in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas in the days of my youth. The story tells how the train was always ‘catching up’ with some cattle on the track.”   Literature: Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, 2001 (third edition), University of Texas Press/ Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (San Francisco), 46.