1971 Self-Portrait lithograph 50 x 35cm This is part two of a four-part post on the works of American 'Regionalist' painter Thomas Hart Benton. For biographical notes see part one. Note: Sizes where shown are rounded up or down to the nearest whole centimetre: 1939 Frisky Day 1939 Weighing Cotton tempera and oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm c1939-41 Prodigal Son oil and tempera on panel 66 x 77 cm 1940 The Departure of the Joads tempera and oil 1940 The Hailstorm tempera on panel 83 x 101 cm 1941 Aaron tempera and oil on canvas 77 x 62 cm 1941 The Cotton Picker 1941 Threshing 1943 July Hay tempera, methyl cellulose and oil on masonite 96 x 68 cm 1943 The Wreck of the Ole '97 tempera on masonite 71 x 112 cm 1944 Cut the Line 1945 Field Workers (Cotton Pickers) oil on canvas 22 x 34 cm 1945 Spring on the Missouri tempera and oil on masonite 77 x 102 cm 1947 Daily Yonder detail from 'Aschelons and Hercules' 1948 Poker Night (from “A Streetcar Named Desire”) tempera and oil on canvas 91 x 122 cm 1949 Portrait of a Musician casein, tempera and oil varnish on canvas 1951 Flood 1954 The Kentuckian c1955-60 Sheepherder oil on canvas 122 x 168 cm 1964 The Twist 1964-5 Trail Riders oil on canvas 143 x 188 cm 1967 Wheat oil on wood 51 x 53 cm 1973 Jon Boat tempera and acrylic on board 31 x 91 cm The Sources of Country Music

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Thomas Hart Benton’s “America Today” Mural at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Mural painting has come a long way since its first appearance around 30,000 BC, with the famous paintings in the Chauvet…

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an art appreciation essay about the artist Thomas Hart Benton with many examples of his work.

Henry Adams writes, "In 1963 [Benton] spent the summer sketching in Wyoming...That same year he took a riding trip with his friend Lyman Field in the Canadian Rockies. In 1965 he took a five-week trip following the routes of Lewis and Clark: first he went up the Missouri River from Omaha to Three Forks, Montana, and from there he journeyed to the Rendezvous area of the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming.” The present work, according to Dr. Adams, was likely painted during this period. [Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on tin, 12.7 x 15.2 cm]

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Whether the piece gave Benton’s reputation the boost he hoped it would during his lifetime, it sealed his legacy as one of the great painters of humanity in his period.