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A woman seated on a wooden fence reading a letter by the light of a lantern.
Letter from Overseas
A woman seated on a wooden fence reading a letter by the light of a lantern.
A woman seated on a wooden fence reading a letter by the light of a lantern.
Letter from Overseas, Thomas Hart Benton, 1943, lithograph on paper, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © T.H. and R.P. Benton Trusts / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Letter from Overseas

Artist (American, 1889 - 1975)
Date1943
Mediumlithograph on paper
DimensionsPlate: 9 3/4 × 13 inches (24.8 × 33 cm)
Credit LineGift of Louis T. Cheney.
Object number1965.15
On View
Not on view
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