Thomas Hart Benton
Study for "The Kentuckian", 1954
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
Study for "The Kentuckian", 1954
Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
25 x 19¾ inches
63.5 x 50.2 cm
63.5 x 50.2 cm
Signed at lower right: Benton
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...
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.
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.
Provenance
The artist; toThe 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, 2015-16Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, October 18—December 6, 2024, no. 31
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. 64 pl. 27 illus. in color, as Grisaille Sketch for The KentuckianSchoelkopf Gallery and Lauren Kroiz, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 2024, no. 31, p. 49, illus., illus. on inside back cover
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