"The lithograph was a study for the painting The Music Lesson. The painting is in the collection of Mrs. Fred Chase Koch, Wichita, Kansas.

Gale Huntington and his little daughter Emily live in Chilmark on the island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. In addition to farming, carpentry, fishing, and the thousand and one odd jobs which everybody does who lives in Chilmark, Gale plays the guitar and sings the songs of the whalers and old-time fishermen of the Island. Emily also sings them. She is learning the piano as well but under protest. She'd rather sing with Gale. Here she watches the chord sequences which underlie a new song (Thomas Hart Ben-ton, Patron's Supplement No. 26, Associated American Artists)." (Creekmore Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, p.140)