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Artworks
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
Study for "The Kentuckian", 1954Pen and ink and pencil on paper11 x 8⅜ inches
27.9 x 21.3 cmSigned at lower right: BentonSoldProvenance
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. 29
Literature
Karal Ann Marling, Tom Benton and His Drawings: A Biographical Essay and a Collection of His Sketches, Studies and Mural Cartoons, University of Missouri Press: Columbia, 1985, p. 35, no. 56, illus. in color, as Cubist Study for The Kentuckian
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. 59 pl. 20 illus. in color, as Cubist Sketch for The Kentuckian
Schoelkopf Gallery and Lauren Kroiz, Thomas Hart Benton: Where Does the West Begin?, New York: Schoelkopf Gallery, 2024, no. 29, p. 48, illus.
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