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Materials:

tempera on canvas mounted on board

Measurements:

47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (height) by 30.98 in. (78.70 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Benton (lower right); also inscribed For T.P.'s birthday/11 years old/from Dad on the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, Associated American Artists. Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, April 1989-June 1990, p. 300, illustrated in color

Literature:

Thomas Hart Benton, Vineyard Gazette, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, 1946. Thomas Hart Benton, "The Dog with a Smile, Takes His Last Trip with the Tom Bentons," The Kansas City Times, August 28, 1946, p. vi, illustrated. Thomas Hart Benton, "An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography," Kansas Quarterly, Spring 1969, p. 111, illustrated. Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton, New York, 1974, p. 158, illustrated pl. 112

Provenance:

Thomas P. Benton (the artist's son). Private Collection, New York, 1980. Acquired by the present owner, 1991