The Joads arrive in California, pt2

The Joads arrive in California. Photograph of the lithograph from The Grapes of Wrath illustrated edition (v.1 end page) as the Joads stop to look over the scene after crossing into California. 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. See also no. 3-341. "Pa sighed, 'I never knowed they was anything like her.' The peach trees and the walnut groves, and the dark green patches of oranges."