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Original works by Thomas Hart Benton available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Thomas Hart Benton
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
4 works online
Thomas Hart Benton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
July Hay, 1943 (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thomas Hart Benton at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Thomas Hart Benton
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Persephone, ca.1938 (Zoom)
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Moonlight on the Osage, 1938
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Weighing Cotton
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Custer's Last Stand, 1943
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York
New England Postmaster, ca.1924
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina NEW!
Banjo Player, 1933 (study)
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina NEW!
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
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 NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Forward Pass
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Island Hay
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Boy Fishing
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Ploughing It Under, 1934
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
June Morning, 1945
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
33 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
5 works online
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Down the River, lithograph, 1939
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
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
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Desert Artist, 1962
Thomas Hart Benton in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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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
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, 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
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Aaron, 1941
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Loading Corn
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Interior of a Farm House
Sheldon Art Gallery, 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 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
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
Swope Art Museum, Indiana
Threshing Wheat, 1938-39
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Industry (Women Spinning), 1924-27
Slaves, 1924-27
The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
Strike, lithograph
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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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.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Wheat, 1967
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
4 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
The Lord is my Shepherd, 1926
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), 1948
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
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)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
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
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Resource Library Magazine
On the Road with Thomas Hart Benton: Images of a Changing America
Resource Library Magazine
Time Magazine
"Tarted Up 'Till the Eye Cries Uncle", 1989 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals NEW!
"Thomas Hart Benton Watercolor & Drawing, ca.1940"
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals NEW!
"Thomas Hart Benton Lithograph, 'County Politics,' ca.1973"
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals NEW!
"Thomas Hart Benton Drawing, ca.1933"
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals NEW!
"1942 Thomas Hart Benton Lithograph, 'The Race'"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| 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.
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Renegade Regionalists
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