Thomas Hart Benton

American, 1889 - 1975

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  • Aaron

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1941

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2000.103.1

    Not on view

  • Tom Keefer

    Thomas Hart Benton

    1941

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2015.19.1100

    Not on view

  • Slow Train through Arkansas

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1941 (published 1942)

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2015.19.1101

    Not on view
  • Printed with black and gray on cream-white paper, this horizontal lithograph shows nine people around or near a pickup truck to our right and a man sitting in front of a shed to our left under a moonlit sky. We are low to the ground, looking slightly up at the scene. Four men wearing hats load the back of the truck. The truck has a tractor-like cab with the windshield tilted out, lamp-like headlights, and the thin tires have spokes. A woman wearing a shin-length dress sits on the fender next to the door we can see, and she looks away toward the men to our left. A younger girl stands with arms crossed and young boy sits on the ground, both facing away from us, near the woman. Beyond the truck and to our left, an oil lamp sits on what might be a box or piece of furniture, next to a round basket. A person wearing a long garment, perhaps a coat, and a wide-brimmed hat faces away from us and seems to support a woman wearing a long dress, whose face turns up as she sways back. Another man sits next to an open door of the wooden shed to our left. A tree growing on the far side of the shed curves up over the sloping roof. A farmhouse sits on the horizon in the distance to our left. Two large, textured, sawn tree trunks lie on the ground close to us in the lower left corner. The land rises in low hills under the truck and shed. A crescent moon hangs in the dark sky above between two arms of clouds that sweep in from our right. On the paper under the printed image to the left, the artist inscribed the work: “To Patricia Syrett from Thomas H. Benton.” The artist also signed the work in the other lower corner, to the right: “Benton.”

    Departure of the Joads

    Thomas Hart Benton, Twentieth-Century Fox Film Corporation

    1939

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2008.115.14

    Not on view

  • Tennessee Belle

    Thomas Hart Benton

    c. 1939

    Graphite and pen and black ink with brown wash on wove paper  Accession ID  2000.98.2

    Not on view

  • The Woodpile

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1939

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  1987.41.11

    Not on view

  • Edge of Town

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1938

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2015.19.994

    Not on view
  • Printed with shades of black and gray, five people dance as a man plays the fiddle in a cramped room in this vertical lithograph. Closest to us, the fiddler sits on a wooden stool to the right. He has a long neck, a prominent Adam’s apple, and a pencil mustache, and his mouth hangs slack. He wears a wide-brimmed, high-crowned hat, a white, long-sleeved shirt, overalls, and rounded shoes. Bracing the fiddle against his chest, he lifts one foot. A pail next to the stool holds another bow. The room beyond the fiddler telescopes, with the far wall seeming close to us, the floor angling sharply up, and the ceiling careening down to meet the far wall. A lantern above hangs at an angle. A man and woman dancing together take up most of the left half of the composition. The woman looks up at the man smiling, and she wears a long dark dress with short, puffed sleeves. The man wraps one arm around her narrow waist, and they lift the entwined fingers of their other hands high. The man’s short hair is parted down the middle, and he wears a button-up, long-sleeved white shirt, trousers, and a belt. Two women and a man dance in the shallow space behind this couple. The corner of an area rug edges into the scene and under the planted foot of the fiddler. The artist’s name, “Benton,” is inscribed on the printing stone in the lower left corner and written in graphite in the lower right.

    I Got a Gal on Sourwood Mountain

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1938

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2008.115.17

    Not on view

  • Edge of Town

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1938

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2015.19.1097

    Not on view

  • Approaching Storm

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Print Club of Cleveland

    1938

    Lithograph in black  Accession ID  1943.3.1458

    Not on view

  • Going West

    Thomas Hart Benton, Ferargil Galleries

    1934

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2000.98.1

    Not on view

  • Plowing it Under

    Thomas Hart Benton, George C. Miller, Associated American Artists

    1934

    Lithograph in black on wove paper  Accession ID  2008.115.15

    Not on view