The Old Print Shop

Wreck of the Old 97.

  • ARTIST: Thomas Hart Benton

  • PUBLISHER: Circulated by Associated American Artists.

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: 1944.

  • EDITION SIZE: Edition 250. Image size 10 5/16 x 14 15/16" (26.3 x 38 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: "Everybody knows the song. It has been popular from one end of the country to the other. Cowboys sing it, people who live in the southern Appalachians sing it, as well as those who live in the Ozarks, and out on the prairie farms. It has even found its way to the fishing coasts of New England. <BR><BR> Goin' down grade at ninety miles an hour, Ol' 97 hit a broken rail and hell busted loose. This picture shows the moment just before the bust.<BR><BR> The song doesn't say who saw the affair, but somebody must have, and it could just as well have been people like those in the wagon. I put 'em in anyhow."<BR> Thomas Hart Benton (Patron's supplement no. 27).

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

  • REFERENCE: The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Creekmore Fath #63.