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Forward Pass

Forward Pass

 American, 1889 - 1975
1972
Lithograph
12 7/8 x 19 3/4 in. (32.7 x 50.2 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right. Edition of 250.

A quarterback lets fly as linemen collide in front of the stadium stands. Benton attended Kansas City Chiefs practices, made sketches and a bronze sculpture, and drew the lithograph from the sculpture. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.

Benton closed his catalogue note with a postscript: "I am five foot three inches." An impression is in the New Britain Museum of American Art. (Fath 85)

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.
Back From the Fields
Thomas Hart Benton
1945
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Frisky Day
Thomas Hart Benton
1939
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White Calf
Thomas Hart Benton
1945
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Aaron
Thomas Hart Benton
1941
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Back from the Fields
Thomas Hart Benton
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Frankie and Johnnie
Thomas Hart Benton
1936
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Coming 'Round the Mountain
Thomas Hart Benton
1931
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Plowing it Under
Thomas Hart Benton
1934
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Waiting for the Revolution
Thomas Hart Benton
1934
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Frankie and Johnny
Thomas Hart Benton
1936
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Huck Finn
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1936
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Jesse James
Thomas Hart Benton
1936
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