Pigs in a pen

Illustration of pigs in a pen from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.1 p.111, illustrated edition, by Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "(Tom) visited the places he remembered, the red bank where the swallows nested, the willow tree over the pig pen. Two shoats grumbled and squirmed at him through the fence, black pigs, sunning and comfortable. And then his pilgrimage was over, and he went to sit on the doorstep where the shade had lately fallen."