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Thomas Hart Benton

[American Regionalist Painter, 1889-1975]

• Relationships: Benton's students included Jackson Pollock.
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Original works by Thomas Hart Benton available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
5 works online

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Thomas Hart Benton

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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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

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


Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Scene

Brooklyn Museum of 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

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Cummer Museum of Art
June Morning, 1945

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
33 works online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
4 works online

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

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

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

Thomas Hart Benton in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

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

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

Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Instruction, lithograph, 1940

Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska

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

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Aaron, 1941

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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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 Tour" discussion of Achelous and Hercules

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

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

Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Investigation, lithograph, 1937

Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
Industry (Women Spinning), 1924-27
Slaves, 1924-27

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
Strike, lithograph

The Mint Museums, North Carolina
Wreck of the Ole '97

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

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

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)

 
Professional Tools:
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Thomas Hart Benton copyright requests handled by VAGA.

 
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

 
Other Web 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:
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

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

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

Resource Library Magazine

  
 
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