Approaching Storm
Approaching Storm
Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889 - 1975
1938
Lithograph
9 3/4 x 12 7/8 in. (24.8 x 32.7 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right. Edition of 200.
A farmer plowing a hillside with a mule team stops beneath a tree as the weather turns. Benton noted the subject as hill plowing in North Carolina, from a drawing and painting done in 1938.
Benton wrote that the lithograph is much like the painting, which Associated American Artists sold in 1939. Impressions are in the National Gallery of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. (Fath 25)
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 farmer plowing a hillside with a mule team stops beneath a tree as the weather turns. Benton noted the subject as hill plowing in North Carolina, from a drawing and painting done in 1938.
Benton wrote that the lithograph is much like the painting, which Associated American Artists sold in 1939. Impressions are in the National Gallery of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. (Fath 25)
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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