Thomas Hart Benton art links 

Original works by Thomas Hart Benton available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Haystack, 1938

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Persephone, ca.1938 (Zoom)

Thomas Hart Benton at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
"Director's Choice" discussion of Achelous and Hercules

Thomas Hart Benton at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
14 works online

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Moonlight on the Osage, 1938

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Weighing Cotton

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Akron Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Custer's Last Stand, 1943

Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York   NEW!
New England Postmaster, ca.1924

Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
Banjo Player, 1933 (study)

Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Departure of the Joads, 1939

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Scene

Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Forward Pass

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Island Hay

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Boy Fishing

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
Ploughing It Under, 1934

Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
June Morning, 1945

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
33 works online

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Page forward to see additional works

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Down the River, lithograph, 1939

Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Prize Crop, ca.1940

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #6

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
The Wreck of the Ole '97, 1943

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Artists' Show

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Hailstorm, 1940

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Desert Artist, 1962

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Boomtown
Threshing

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Engineer's Dream, 1931

Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul

Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Wreck of the Ole '97

Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska

Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Self-Portrait, 1963

Thomas Hart Benton at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
W. C. Fields, drawing, 1937

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Aaron, 1941

Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Loading Corn

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art   NEW!

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Interior of a Farm House

San Diego Museum of Art, California   NEW!

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Lonesome Road
The Lonesome Road, lithograph
Threshing, lithograph

Sioux City Art Center, Iowa
County Politics, 1973

Thomas Hart Benton at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"

Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
3 prints online

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago   NEW!
4 works online

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
Strike, lithograph

The Huntington Library, California

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Prodigal Son, 1939

U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Goin' Home, lithograph, 1937

U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington D.C.

U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington D.C.

University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Missouri
Portrait of a Musician

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Brideship (Colonial Brides), ca.1927-28

Virtual Museum of Canada
Wheat, 1967

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Thomas Hart Benton at The Athenaeum

California State University WorldImages Database

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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Anthology of Modern American Poetry
The Sowers, 1942

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Boy and Dog on the Farm

Time Magazine Cover Archive
Self-Portrait, 1934

University Art Museum at the University of California

University Art Museum at the University of California

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Hart Benton  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
City Activities with Dance Hall mural at Equitable Tower, New York City

Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton: Pioneering Art in the Midwest" (2005)

Resource Library Magazine
On the Road with Thomas Hart Benton: Images of a Changing America

Resource Library Magazine

The Art Story

 

Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"Thomas Hart Benton Watercolor & Drawing, ca.1940"

Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"Thomas Hart Benton Lithograph, 'County Politics,' ca.1973"

Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"Thomas Hart Benton Drawing, ca.1933"

Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"1942 Thomas Hart Benton Lithograph, 'The Race'"

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   look inside Renegade Regionalists