Self-Portrait

1972

Thomas Hart Benton

Associated Names
Thomas Hart Benton

Artist, American, 1889 - 1975

The image depicts an older man standing in an artist's workspace. He is positioned slightly angled to the left, with his head facing forward. His facial features are defined, with lines, bushy brows, and some scruff on his chin. He has gray unruly hair. He is wearing a buttoned shirt under a jacket, with the shirt appearing creased and untidy. He holds a brush over a palette in his left hand. On the table are an easel, a cup, and a tube of paint. The background shows a room with wooden paneling and a slanted ceiling.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jerome W. and Dorothy A. Canter

  • Dimensions

    image: 49.53 × 35.24 cm (19 1/2 × 13 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 60.64 × 45.4 cm (23 7/8 × 17 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.8.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fath 1979, no. 84

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired in 2013 from Jerome W. and Dorothy A. Canter, Bethesda, Maryland

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 188-189, no. 84.

Inscriptions

lower right on stone: Benton; lower right in graphite: (printer's proof) Benton

Wikidata ID

Q76561888

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