Construction
Artist
Thomas Hart Benton
(American, 1889 - 1975)
Date1923
MediumInk with oil wash on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 27 3/4 × 23 3/4 inches (70.49 × 60.33 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (74.3 × 63.82 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (74.3 × 63.82 cm)
Credit LineBequest of the artist
Object numberF75-21/42
SignedSigned upper right: Benton; signed and dated lower right: Benton 24;
signed lower right: Benton
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryAmerican
Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, June 5 2021–September
5 2021, no cat.
Thomas Hart Benton;
His gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1975.
Kathleen Patterson, “Nelson Gallery in Benton Will,” Kansas City
Times, 26 February 1975, 1B; Kansas City Remembers: Thomas
Hart Benton, 1889–1975, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Federal
Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1989), unpaginated; NAMA 1991,
190; Randall R. Griffey, “Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as
Muse,” American Art Review 17 (April 2005), 95–96.
Times, 26 February 1975, 1B; Kansas City Remembers: Thomas
Hart Benton, 1889–1975, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Federal
Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1989), unpaginated; NAMA 1991,
190; Randall R. Griffey, “Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as
Muse,” American Art Review 17 (April 2005), 95–96.
Copyright© Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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