Missouri Lawyer
Artist
Thomas Hart Benton
(American, 1889 - 1975)
Dateca. 1966-1967
MediumTempera on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 26 1/4 × 20 3/16 inches (66.68 × 51.28 cm)
Framed: 33 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (85.73 × 70.49 cm)
Framed: 33 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (85.73 × 70.49 cm)
Credit LineBequest of the artist
Object numberF75-21/43
SignedSigned and dated lower right: Benton / 67
Inscribedinscribed on verso center: Clay Rogers / "Missouri Lawyer" / Painted in 1967 (Polymer Tempera) / Benton
On View
Not on viewCollections
ProvenanceThomas Hart Benton;
His gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1975.
Thomas Hart Benton, exh. cat. (Madison, Wisc.: Madison Art Cen
ter, 1970), unpaginated; Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), 11, 250; Kathleen Patterson,
“Nelson Gallery in Benton Will,” Kansas City Times, 26 Febru
ary 1975, 1B; “Paintings from the Thomas Hart Benton Bequest,”
Gallery Events (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary
Atkins Museum of Fine Arts), March 1976, unpaginated; Karal Ann
Marling, Tom Benton and His Drawings: A Biographical Essay and
a Collection of His Sketches, Studies, and Mural Cartoons (Colum
bia: University of Missouri Press, 1985), 187, 194–95, 223.
ter, 1970), unpaginated; Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), 11, 250; Kathleen Patterson,
“Nelson Gallery in Benton Will,” Kansas City Times, 26 Febru
ary 1975, 1B; “Paintings from the Thomas Hart Benton Bequest,”
Gallery Events (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary
Atkins Museum of Fine Arts), March 1976, unpaginated; Karal Ann
Marling, Tom Benton and His Drawings: A Biographical Essay and
a Collection of His Sketches, Studies, and Mural Cartoons (Colum
bia: University of Missouri Press, 1985), 187, 194–95, 223.
Copyright© Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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