Shallow Creek, Thomas Hart Benton, 1939
Thomas Hart Benton, portraitThomas Hart BentonAmerican, 1889–1975

Shallow Creek

1939 · Print

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Where is “Shallow Creek” now? Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, United States

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72.73

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In the life of Thomas Hart Benton

The whole life
  1. 1929–1974

    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.

  2. 1935–1941

    Employed by: Kansas City Art Institute

  3. 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.

  4. 10 July 1939

    Daughter born: Jessie Benton

  5. 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).

  6. 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.

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