Departure of the Joads, from The Grapes of Wrath
- Medium
- Lithograph on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 32.7 × 47 cm (12 7/8 × 18 9/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 60.1 cm (15 7/8 × 23 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
In 1939, Twentieth-Century Fox commissioned Benton to create six lithographs-with reproduction rights to a billboard-size reproduction-as a promotional ploy for its filming of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. One of these was the melancholy synopsis of destitute, migrant "Okies" from drought-stricken Oklahoma in The Departure of the Joads.
