Thomas Hart BentonEstados Unidos, 1889–1975Planting (Spring Plowing)
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Instituto de Artes de Mineápolis
Minneapolis, Estados Unidos
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Together with John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton was a leading American Regionalist painter and printmaker known for his sympathetic portrayals of everyday life in the United States, especially rural and small town scenes in the Midwest. Initially active in modernist circles in Paris and New York City, Benton later rejected modernism and abstraction in favor of naturalism and representational art. He later resettled in his home state of Missouri, where he lived the remainder of his life. His sympathy for the working class and small farmer is evident in many of his works, including the present lithograph, which depicts an African American couple working their less-than-ideal acreage, their hardscrabble life underscored by their lone burro and modest farmhouse in the distance.
Instituto de Artes de Mineápolis
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- Número de inventario
- 2002.258
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- Instituto de Artes de Mineápolis
- Imagen: Instituto de Artes de Mineápolis — © T.H. and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Mientras tanto, en la vida de Thomas Hart Benton
La vida entera1929–1974
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 de julio de 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.
