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Artworks
Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
Organization, 1944Oil on metal6¾ x 4¼ inches
17.1 x 10.8 cmSigned and dated at lower center: Benton 44Schoelkopf 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. 18, as Cubist Still Life
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. 51, p. 16, illus.
Lester-Thompson Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York; and Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, Thomas Hart Benton: Mechanics of Form, February–May 2019, p. 38, illus., as Cubist Still Life Fantasy
Literature
Elizabeth Broun, "Benton and European Modernism," in Elizabeth Broun, Douglas Hyland, and Marilyn Stokstad, Benton’s Bentons: Selections from the Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Trusts, Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1980, fig. A10, pp. 20, illus., 21, no. 18, 59, no. 20, 70, as Cubist Still Life
Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989, p. 115, illus. in color1of 3
