Thomas Hart BentonAmerican, 1889–1975Homestead
Can I see it?
Yes, on view now
Where is “Homestead” now? The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, Floor 5, 521, New York. Yes, on view now. Checked September 22, 2026.
Open now· until 7:00 PM
On public display.
- Checked
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 34.1953
In the catalog
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Thomas Hart Benton
The whole life1929–1974
92 lithographs, 1929–1974
From 1929 to 1974 Benton produces 92 lithographs in editions ranging from 2 to 500; the signed, limited-edition lithographs are sold at five dollars each through the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York.
1935–1941
Employed by: Kansas City Art Institute
1937
The autobiography “An Artist in America”
Publishes his autobiography An Artist in America, which is critically acclaimed; the writer Sinclair Lewis remarks that a painter who can write is a rare thing.
10 July 1939
Daughter born: Jessie Benton
1939–1944
Illustrates Twain and Steinbeck
Creates illustrations for Mark Twain's “Tom Sawyer” (1939), John Steinbeck's “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940), Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” (1941) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1944).
1940
An artist on the set of “The Long Voyage Home”
Hired, along with eight other prominent American artists, to document dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film The Long Voyage Home, an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays.
