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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thomas Hart Benton, Study for "American Historical Epic — Colonial Expansion: Struggle for the Wilderness", c. 1924-26

Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975

Study for "American Historical Epic — Colonial Expansion: Struggle for the Wilderness", c. 1924-26
Oil on paper
18⅞ x 21¼ inches
47.9 x 54 cm
Signed at lower right: Benton
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Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Thomas Hart Benton Trust. This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Thomas Hart Benton...
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Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Thomas Hart Benton Trust.


This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen.
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Provenance

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

Exhibitions

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, organized by the Mid-America Arts Alliance; Department of Parks and Recreation, St. Louis, Missouri; Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Wichita Art Center, Kansas; Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri; Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Illinois; The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, Benton's Bentons: Selections from The Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Trusts, July 13, 1980-June 26, 1983, p. 62, no. 46, as Preliminary Study for American Historical Epic Mural

Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, October 18—December 6, 2024, no. 5

Literature

Schoelkopf Gallery and Lauren Kroiz, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 2024, no. 5, p. 32, illus. 

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