Tenant farmer told to leave

Illustration of the landowner telling tenant farmer they have to leave the land, from The Grapes of Wrath v.1 p.37 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. "The owners of the land came onto the land, or more often a spokesman for the owners came. They came in closed cars and they felt the dry earth with their fingers...."