Making Camp
Making Camp
Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889 - 1975
1972
Lithograph
11 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (30.2 x 36.5 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right. Edition of 250.
River floaters make camp on a gravel bar at the end of the day, beneath bluffs on the Buffalo River in northwest Arkansas. Benton noted that his party would camp beside such pools and fish them while supper was cooked. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
A late print, drawn from the spring float trips Benton made on the free-flowing rivers of the Ozarks for many years; in his note he set these rivers against those altered by the Army Corps of Engineers. (Fath 86)
Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975)
Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris. Rejecting the European modernism of his early years, he became, with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, a leader of American Regionalism, painting the farmers, laborers, and folklore of the Midwest and South in a dynamic, sculptural style. His major murals include America Today (1930–31, Metropolitan Museum of Art) and A Social History of the State of Missouri (1936) in the Missouri State Capitol, and in 1934 he became the first artist to appear on the cover of Time. Beginning in 1934, Associated American Artists published his lithographs in editions sold by mail at modest prices, making them among the most widely collected American prints of the century. Benton taught at the Art Students League in New York, where Jackson Pollock was his student, and later at the Kansas City Art Institute. He died in his Kansas City studio in 1975.
River floaters make camp on a gravel bar at the end of the day, beneath bluffs on the Buffalo River in northwest Arkansas. Benton noted that his party would camp beside such pools and fish them while supper was cooked. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
A late print, drawn from the spring float trips Benton made on the free-flowing rivers of the Ozarks for many years; in his note he set these rivers against those altered by the Army Corps of Engineers. (Fath 86)
Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975)
Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris. Rejecting the European modernism of his early years, he became, with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, a leader of American Regionalism, painting the farmers, laborers, and folklore of the Midwest and South in a dynamic, sculptural style. His major murals include America Today (1930–31, Metropolitan Museum of Art) and A Social History of the State of Missouri (1936) in the Missouri State Capitol, and in 1934 he became the first artist to appear on the cover of Time. Beginning in 1934, Associated American Artists published his lithographs in editions sold by mail at modest prices, making them among the most widely collected American prints of the century. Benton taught at the Art Students League in New York, where Jackson Pollock was his student, and later at the Kansas City Art Institute. He died in his Kansas City studio in 1975.
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