Woman Dancing

Thomas Hart Benton American

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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). The New Woman of the Jazz Age appears in many guises in Benton’s city-focused mural panels. Woman Dancing represents the working-girl flapper, with bobbed hair and flimsy attire, who appears in the City Activities with Subway mural panel as a "taxi-dancer" in a pay-per-dance hall. Wearing a revealing red dress, she and her partner dance the popular fox-trot.

Woman Dancing, Thomas Hart Benton (American, Neosho, Missouri 1889–1975 Kansas City, Missouri), Graphite on paper

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