Artist: Ben Messick (American, 1901 - 1981). Title: "Plantation Party". Medium: Lithograph. Date: Composed 1940. Dimensions: Overall size: 19 x 25 in. (483 x 635 mm). Image size: 14 3/4 x 18 in. (375 x 457 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in the stone (as usual), lower right. Messick never pencil signed his prints. Edition limited but unknown. Very wide (full?) margins. Fine impression. Very good condition. Comment(s): Messick completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s. He is well-known for his Regionalist scenes as well as Modernist paintings. [17664-5-225]