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Letter from Overseas

Artist Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975)
Title Letter from Overseas
Date 1943
Medium Lithograph on paper
Dimensions Image: 9 1/2 × 13 1/8 in. (24.1 × 33.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (31.8 × 40 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Frank and Becky Hrisomalos, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2016.6

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In 1942, Thomas Hart Benton produced a series of eight wartime propaganda paintings—The Year of Peril—that graphically depicted foreign enemies desecrating American lives, soil, and moral values. In addition to these horrific images, Benton produced patriotic prints that were sympathetic to the emotional toll that WWII was taking on America’s soldiers and their families back home. This work is a compendium to another print, Morning Train (Soldier’s Farewell), showing a young soldier leaving his small Plains town and his parents for the war.


2016, Gift to the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University from Becky Hrisomalos, Bloomington, IN

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

March 18–May 18, 2008, "Homespun America: Regionalist Prints from the Indiana University Art Museum's Collection," Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

Publisher Associated American Artists

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