Frisky Day

Thomas Hart Benton

1939

  • Titles Frisky Day (Proper)
  • Artist Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889 - 1975
  • Medium lithograph
  • Dimensions sheet: 9 7/8 × 14 in. (25.1 × 35.6 cm) image: 7 13/16 × 12 1/16 in. (19.8 × 30.6 cm) mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Ms. Claire Schwab Frankel, 1997.10
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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This image is created with black ink on paper. It represents a two story house with a porch to the left, built with brick on the bottom story and board on the top. The windows are in various states of disorder and on the top story some of the wood siding has fallen away, revealing the lathe and plaster of the interior walls. There are two windows in the top story and two windows in the bottom story. In front of the bottom right window there is a small outbuilding, also made of brick. There is a figure to the left of the outbuilding and another seated to the right next to a chair. Behind her stands a tree, and a second house stands behind the tree, more obscured than the first. A tree also rises from behind the upper left of the house at the left of the image.
This etching is created with black ink on paper. It pictures a residential street on a hill overlooking an iron furnace. The street extends into the foreground. On the left side of the street are receding houses, some with one or two story porches. A figure enters the front door of the first house, and two additional figures walk in the street. A tree rises at the right side of the street, and next to it the upper half of a car is seen.
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