Work by
Thomas Hart Benton is featured in America After the Fall: Painting in the
1930s, at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, through June 4.
Below
is Benton’s lithograph The Race (also titled Homeward Bound), of 1942. In the Creekmore
Fath print catalogue raisonné there's a note by Benton that horses galloped
with steam engines but not with diesels.
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| Thomas Hart Benton, The Race (also titled Homeward Bound), 1942 |
A member of
Associated American Artists’ 'Triumvirate of American Regionalism' along with
John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, Benton (1889-1975) was a painter, muralist, and
printmaker. His America Today mural series of 1930-31 is at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art; A Social History of the State of Missouri, 1936, is in the
Missouri State House, Jefferson City, and is NOT TO MISSED!
