Logging Scene (Hauling the Logs to the Pile)
Thomas Hart Benton American
Not on view
In 1929, at the Delphic Gallery in New York, Benton exhibited a series of sketches called The Lumber Camp, made in the forests of Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. This sketch is one of dozens of drawings that Benton used to compose his mural America Today, also in the Museum’s collection (2012.478a–j). He used this imagery as the basis for the logging scene in the mural panel Midwest. For Benton, the mountains of this region "hold our simple pioneer past in their bosoms and . . . , in many instances, give us the peace of old, quaint, and quiet traditions."
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