2015年8月5日 星期三

Thomas Hart Benton

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Read an interview with Randall Griffey, curator of the exhibition “Thomas Hart Benton's ‘America Today’ Mural Rediscovered” and co-author of the accompanying “Bulletin,” about Benton's mural and the connections between Benton's art and life. ‪#‎BentonMural‬


Our “Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural Rediscovered” exhibition closes Sunday. “America Today” ranks among Benton's most renowned works and is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in American art of the period. The epic ten-panel mural will reopen in Gallery 909 in the Museum’s modern wing by the end of May.
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"...a raucous, cartwheeling, wide-angle look at 1920s America that set the standard for the Works Progress Administration’s mural program and has remained a New York City treasure.” —The New York Timeson Thomas Hart Benton’s epic ten-panel mural “America Today,” now on view. http://met.org/1oGSKDa
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975) | City Activities with Subway from America Today | 1930–31
Opening today, “Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural Rediscovered” celebrates the gift of Benton’s epic mural from AXA US. Showing a sweeping panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, “America Today” is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in American art of the period.http://met.org/1mHpJM4
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975) | City Activities with Dancehall from America Today | 1930–31

Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter andmuralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of theRegionalist art movement. His fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. Though his work is strongly associated with the Midwest, he studied in Paris, lived in New York City for more than 20 years and painted scores of works there; summered for 50 years on Martha's Vineyard off the New England coast; and also painted scenes of the American South and the American West.






WIn 1937, Benton published his autobiography, An Artist in America, which was critically acclaimed. The writer Sinclair Lewis said of it: “Here’s a rare thing, a painter who can write.”[citation needed] During this period, Benton also began to produce signed, limited editionlithographs, which were sold at $5.00 each through the Associated American Artists Galleries based in New York.[16]

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Achelous and Hercules, a 1947 mural made for a Kansas City department store, now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Benton as teacher[edit]ritings[edit]

  • Benton, Thomas Hart (1951), An Artist in America, University of Kansas City Press.
  • Benton, Thomas Hart (1969), An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography, University Press of Kansas.

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