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Thomas Hart Benton American
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This colorful depiction of a coastline represents Benton’s initial response to the environs of Martha’s Vineyard, where he and his family summered with friends frequently. The painter imagined the place to be an otherworldly utopia, removed from banal concerns of everyday modern life.
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Title: Landscape
Artist:
Thomas Hart Benton (American, Neosho, Missouri 1889–1975 Kansas City, Missouri)
Date: ca. 1920
Medium: Oil on paper
Dimensions:
7 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (19.1 × 22.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
Accession Number: 2021.54.5
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