Thomas Hart Benton: Ultramodern presents ten abstract oil and tempera paintings from 1917 to 1973 that reveal a little known but important current in the artist's practice.
Benton lived and worked in Paris from 1908 to 1911, where he encountered pioneering approaches to abstraction, including Constructivism, Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Orphism, and Synchromism, the latter developed by fellow American artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. Bubbles (1914–17; Baltimore Museum of Art), which exemplifies Benton's own early abstraction, is now on view alongside non-objective European paintings in Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. By 1921, Benton was celebrated by critic Paul Rosenfeld as one of “the most ultramodern in tendency among modern American painters.”
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Thomas Hart Benton
Demonstration, 1973Oil on canvas
17¾ x 23¾ inches
45.1 x 60.3 cm -
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For additional information about Thomas Hart Benton: Ultramodern or any of the works presented, please be in touch with Alana Ricca at alana@schoelkopfgallery.com or (212) 879 - 8815
