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Artworks
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
Twelve Planes and a Silver Egg, 1934Tempera on board8¾ x 5 inches
22.2 x 12.7 cmSigned at lower right: BentonSoldSchoelkopf 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
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. 14
The Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; Cheney Cowels Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington; Lakeview Museum of Art & Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida; Albany Museum of Art, Georgia; Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; and Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton: An Intimate View, 1986-1988
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. 36, p. 12, illus.
Lester-Thompson Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York; and Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, Thomas Hart Benton: Mechanics of Form, February–May 2019, p. 52, 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. A3, pp. 14, illus., 15, no. 14, 58, no. 14, 70
Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An Intimate View, Kansas City, Missouri: The Lowell Press, Inc., with Smith Kramer Art Connections, 1986, pp. 14, illus. 34
Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989, p. 115, illus. in color3of 3
