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Artworks
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
Constructivist Still Life, 1917Oil on cardboard12½ x 8 inches
31.8 x 20.3 cmSigned at lower right: BentonSchoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Thomas Hart Benton Trust.
Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Thomas Hart Benton Trust.
Provenance
The artist; to
The Thomas Hart and Rita Piacenza Benton Testamentary TrustsExhibitions
Graham Gallery, New York, Thomas Hart Benton: A Comprehensive Exhibition of Drawings, Watercolors, Oils and Temperas, November 26–December 28, 1968, no. 4, illus.
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Thomas Hart Benton: A Retrospective of his Early Years, 1907–1929, November 19–December 30, 1972, no. 18
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Tennessee, Thomas Hart Benton: An Artist's Selection, 1974-75, no. 6
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, no. 7
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, April 16, 1989–July 22, 1990, no. 10, p. 6, illus.
Museo d’Arte Moderna della Citta di Lugano, Villa Malpensata, Lugano, Switzerland, Thomas Hart Benton, September 5–November 15, 1992, no. 15
Lester-Thompson Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York; and Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, Thomas Hart Benton: Mechanics of Form, February–May 2019, p. 34, illus.
Literature
Elizabeth Broun, "Benton and European Modernism," in Elizabeth Broun, Douglas Hyland, and Marilyn Stokstad, Benton’sBentons: Selections from the Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Trusts, Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1980, fig. A1, pp. 10, illus., 12, no. 7, 57, no. 10, 70
Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989, p. 71, illus. in color
Rudy Chiappini, Thomas Hart Benton, Lugano, Switzerland: Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1992, pp. 42-43, illus. in color, no. 15, 152, illus., as dated 1917-18
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