New England Farm
New England Farm
Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889 - 1975
1951
Lithograph
9 x 13 15/16 in. (22.9 x 35.4 cm)
Signed in the stone and in pencil lower right. Edition of 300.
Haying with an ox team on a hillside farm. Benton identified it as the Martha's Vineyard farm of Denys Wortman, the New York newspaper cartoonist. Issued as the 1951 gift print of the Friends of Art, Kansas State University.
One of the many Martha's Vineyard subjects from the island where the Bentons summered for decades. An impression is in the Wichita Art Museum. (Fath 76)
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.
Haying with an ox team on a hillside farm. Benton identified it as the Martha's Vineyard farm of Denys Wortman, the New York newspaper cartoonist. Issued as the 1951 gift print of the Friends of Art, Kansas State University.
One of the many Martha's Vineyard subjects from the island where the Bentons summered for decades. An impression is in the Wichita Art Museum. (Fath 76)
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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