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Artworks
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
Study for "The Kentuckian", 1954Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper25 x 19¾ inches
63.5 x 50.2 cmSigned at lower right: BentonThis 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...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; to
The Thomas Hart and Rita Piacenza Benton Testamentary TrustsExhibitions
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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