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Materials:

oil on gessoed masonite

Size Notes:

20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Chicago, Illinois, Associated American Artists Galleries, Benton, 1946, no. 9. Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth Collects, September 6-October 2, 1960, no. 51, illustrated. Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Center, Recent Acquisitions of Local Collectors, February 7-March 3, 1968, no. 5. Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Americana: A Painting Survey of the American Scene from the Collection of the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, January 29-March 14, 1976, no. 6, illustrated. College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, The American Vision: Paintings from the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, August 23-September 19, 1982, pp. 54-55, illustrated. Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 16-November 14, 1982, no. 62, illustrated. Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; New York, The Lotus Club, The May Family Collection of American Paintings, February 7-May 1, 1988, pp. 14-15, no. 2, illustrated. Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, April 15-September 30, 1992. Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, July-September 2006, on loan. Palm Beach, Florida, Surovek Gallery, Thomas Hart Benton Exhibition, February 1-April 7, 2017.

Literature:

T.H. Benton, "An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography," Kansas Quarterly, vol. I, 1969, p. 118, illustrated. C. Fath, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, Austin, Texas, 1979.

Provenance:

Private collection, Denver, Colorado. Elizabeth Nelson Gallery, Chicago. John Paxton, Aledo, Texas, by 1960. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971.