Thomas Hart Benton, Study for "The Kentuckian", 1954

Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975

Study for "The Kentuckian", 1954

Pencil on paper

11¾ x 17 inches
29.8 x 43.2 cm

Signed at lower right: Benton

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Provenance

The artist; to
The Thomas Hart and Rita Piacenza Benton Testamentary Trusts

Exhibitions

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; and the Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin,Thomas Hart Benton: American Epics and Hollywood, 2015-16

Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, October 18—December 6, 2024, no. 30

Literature

Austen Barron Bailly, "True West: Thomas Hart Benton and American Epics," in Austen Barron Bailly, ed., Thomas Hart Benton: American Epics and Hollywood, Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum and Munich, London, and New York: Prestel Verlag, 2015, p. 61 pl. 24 illus. in color, as Sketch for The Kentuckian (dog)

Schoelkopf Gallery and Lauren Kroiz, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 2024, no. 30, p. 48, illus.

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