Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975
101.6 x 76.2 cm
Provenance
The artist; toThe Thomas Hart and Rita Piacenza Benton Testamentary Trusts
Exhibitions
Ohio State Fair, August 26—September 6, 1971
Spiva Art Center, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton: A Personal Commemorative, A Retrospective Exhibition of His Works, 1907-1972, March-April 1973
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, Thomas Hart Benton: An Artist’s Selection, 1908–1974, October 12, 1974–January 7, 1975, no. 33
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Memorial Exhibition: Thomas Hart Benton, George L.K. Morris, Michael Rapuano, March 8–April 4, 1976
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. 32The 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, p. 8, illus., 36
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. 67
Museo d’Arte Moderna della Citta di Lugano, Villa Malpensata, Lugano, Switzerland, Thomas Hart Benton, September 5–November 15, 1992, no. 70
Literature
Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973, pl. 2Ann C. Van Devanter and Alfred Victor Frankenstein, American Self-Portraits, 1670-1973, United Kingdom: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974, p. 222
Mary Curtis Warten, ed., Thomas Hart Benton: A Personal Commemorative, A Retrospective Exhibition of his Works 1907–1972, Kansas City, Missouri: Burd + Fletcher, 1973, p. 61, illus. in color, as SELF PORTRAIT, 81 YEARS OLD, acrylic
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, illus. on the cover, no. 32, pp. 60, 70Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An Intimate View, Kansas City, Missouri: The Lowell Press, Inc., with Smith Kramer Art Connections, 1986, pp. 8, illus., 36
R. Douglas Hurt, Mary K. Dains, Sidney Larson, Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton: Artist, Writer and Intellectual, Columbia, Missouri: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1989, illus. on the cover
Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989, p. 337, illus. in color
Rudy Chiappini, Thomas Hart Benton, Lugano, Switzerland: Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1992, pp. 145, illus. in color, no. 70, 172, illus.
J. Richard Gruber, Thomas Hart Benton and The American South, Augusta, Georgia: Morris Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 6, illus. in color, 56
