Tom Joad and Jim Casey

Illustration of Tom Joad and Preacher Jim Casy as they are about to climb over a barbed wired fence to see the Joad residence, from The Grapes of Wrath, V.1 p. 48 illustrated edition. Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate.Hard copy and slide. "The Reverend Jim Casy and young Tom Joad stood on the hill and looked down on the Joad place. The small unpainted house was mashed at one coenre, and it had been pushed off its foundation so that it slumped at an angle, its blind front windows pointing at a spot of sky well above the horizon."