The Corral
The Corral
Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889 - 1975
1948
Lithograph
9 3/8 x 13 5/8 in. (23.8 x 34.6 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right. Edition of 250.
Men and horses at a corral beside a barn and windmill in the Sand Hills of western Nebraska. Benton drew it in 1939 on a trip through the northern plains with an Army officer and a veterinarian, buying quarter horses for French light artillery. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
Benton noted that he made the print for himself and that it was later distributed by AAA. Impressions are in the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. (Fath 71)
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.
Men and horses at a corral beside a barn and windmill in the Sand Hills of western Nebraska. Benton drew it in 1939 on a trip through the northern plains with an Army officer and a veterinarian, buying quarter horses for French light artillery. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
Benton noted that he made the print for himself and that it was later distributed by AAA. Impressions are in the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. (Fath 71)
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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