Morning Train
Morning Train
Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889 - 1975
1943
Lithograph
9 3/8 x 13 1/2 in. (23.8 x 34.3 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right. Edition of 250.
A soldier says goodbye to his family beside the tracks of a small plains town, a water tank behind them. Benton drew the tank, track and station in late 1942. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
Also called Soldier's Farewell. Benton noted that it was first titled Going West, soldiers' slang for going to die, and that the title was dropped during the war. An impression is in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. (Fath 58)
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.
A soldier says goodbye to his family beside the tracks of a small plains town, a water tank behind them. Benton drew the tank, track and station in late 1942. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
Also called Soldier's Farewell. Benton noted that it was first titled Going West, soldiers' slang for going to die, and that the title was dropped during the war. An impression is in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. (Fath 58)
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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