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Thomas Hart BentonBorn in Neosho, Missouri, of a family of lawyers and politicians, Thomas Hart Benton was named after his great uncle, who was Andrew Jackson's right-hand man. His father, Colonel M. E. Benton was a powerful force in Missouri politics.
His family wanted him to become a lawyer, instead he decided to try his hand in art. Benton's summary of his art education was, "I studied painting in Chicago and then in France. Influenced by modern French Schools, Delacroix onward, intensely by the Italian Renaissance, by Thomas Nast the cartoonist, and other depictors of the American scene."
Settling in Kansas City he engrossed himself in the American scene and designed and dramatized the people and localities he visited on canvas and stone. His art became known as regionalism. Former President Harry S. Truman called him, "The best damned painter in America." Many of his prints are lithographed versions of his paintings.
Craven, Thomas, A Treasury of American Prints, New York, 1939.
Fath, Creekmore, The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1969.
Kraeft, June and Norman, Great American Prints, 1900-1950, New York, 1984, p.139.
Zigrosser, Carl, The Artist in America, New York, 1942, pp.173-179.
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Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
Gateside Conversation
9-7/8 x 14 in.
Lithograph, 1946, edition 250. Fath 69. Signed on the stone, lower right, and in pencil.
Sheet size: 11 x 15-1/4 in.
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Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
Sunset
10 x 13-1/4 in.
Lithograph, 1941, edition 204. Fath 43. Signed on the stone, lower right,
and in pencil. Full margins.
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Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
Plowing It Under or Ploughing
10 x 13-1/4 in.
Lithograph, 1934, edition 250. Fath 8. Signed on the stone, lower right,
and in pencil. Printed on wove paper with a watermark, BFK.
Full margins with deckle edges all around.
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Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
Fire in the Barnyard
8-3/4 x 13-3/8 in.
Lithograph, 1944, edition 250. Fath 64. Signed on the stone, lower right and in pencil. Printed on wove paper with large margins. Sheet size: 12 x 15-3/4 in. Deckle edges on the right and lower sides of the sheet.
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Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
Island Hay
10 x 12-1/2 in.
Lithograph, 1945, edition 250. Fath 68. Signed on the stone, lower left and in pencil. Printed on wove paper with large margins. Sheet size: 12 x 16 in.
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Thomas Hart Benton
American (1889-1975)
Planting
9-7/8 x 12-5/8 in.
Lithograph, 1939, edition 250. Fath 28. Signed in pencil. Printed on wove paper with a watermark, Rives. Sheet size: 11-7/8 x 15-7/8 in. Condition very good with full margins, deckle edges all around.
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