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THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)

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ID 839063
Lot 130 | THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)

Spring Ploughing

signed 'Benton' (lower right)

oil on canvas

22 3/8 x 30 1/4 in. (56.8 x 76.8 cm.)

Painted circa 1940





Provenance

Associated American Artists, New York.

Mervyn LeRoy, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, 1941).

Warner LeRoy and Linda LeRoy Janklow (children of the above).

Private collection, Alabama.

Acquired by the late owner, 1999.



Literature

"Institute Exhibit Reveals a More Mature Tom Benton," Kansas City Star, March 28, 1941 (illustrated).

E.A. Jewell, "Paintings on View of Thomas Benton" in The New York Times, 9 April 1941, p. 30.



Exhibited

New York, Associated American Artists, Thomas Hart Benton: Recent Works, April 1941.

Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, pp. 128-31, no. 31 (illustrated in color, p. 129; detail, p. 131).



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This work will be included in the forthcoming Thomas Hart Benton catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen.
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