The Boy

Art © T.H. and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

The Boy

Currently not on view

The Boy,

1948

Thomas Hart Benton, 1889–1975; born Neosho, MO; died Kansas City, MO; active Paris, New York, and Kansas City
x1979-69

Information

Title
The Boy
Dates

1948

Maker
Thomas Hart Benton
Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

image: 24 x 34.8 cm (9 7/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
sheet: 30.7 x 40.6 cm (12 1/16 x 16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Carlton K. Coddington, Class of 1938

Object Number
x1979-69
Signatures

Signed in stone, lower right: Benton
Signed in graphite, lower right: Benton

Reference Numbers
Fath 164
Culture
American
Type
prints, lithographs
Subject
clouds, figures (representations), boys, farmland, hills, men, landscapes (representations), women

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