Art © T.H. and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Baptism,
1926
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889–1975; born Neosho, MO; died Kansas City, MO; active Paris, New York, and Kansas City
x1943-4
Information
Title
Baptism
Dates
1926
Maker
Medium
Pen and black ink and brown wash over graphite
Dimensions
23.5 x 31 cm (9 1/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1943-4
Signatures
Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: Benton
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: baptism
Culture
Type
Materials
- Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: drawing from life, (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990).
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
- Leo G. Mazow, Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American waterways, (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).
- Leo G. Mazow, Thomas Hart Benton and the American sound, (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012)., p. xi, fig. 44; p. 77 (illus.)
