Tonight's Art Moment is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt of Thomas Hart Benton painting Persephone in 1938. "Persephone"was painted in a studio at the Kansas City Art Institute during Benton's tenure as professor. This photograph captures one studio session with the artist and his model, Imogene Bruton of Independence, Missouri. It also reveals that Benton worked on separate areas of large compositions at different paces. Note that the figure and landscape are highly finished, whereas the picnic basket and lower portion remain merely outlined. Behind the artist can be seen the preliminary clay model he created as well as paintings of the same subject by his students. Not on view.
Persephone is a 1939 painting by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts the Greek goddess Persephone, resting nude by a tree in a rural Midwestern setting. Benton, dressed in farmer's clothes, plays the role of Pluto and peeks from behind the tree.
It was painted at the Kansas City Art Institute where Benton worked as a teacher. Several of Benton's students also made their own versions of the subject. A reporter from Life visited Benton in his studio during his work on this painting and his other famous nude painting from the same period, Susanna and the Elders.[1]
| Thomas Hart Benton | |
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Benton in 1935
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| Born | April 15, 1889 Neosho, Missouri |
| Died | January 19, 1975 (aged 85) Kansas City, Missouri[1][2] |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | "America Today" (1930-31), "Indiana Murals" (1933), "Social History of Missouri" (1936), "Persephone" (1938-39)[3] |
| Movement | Regionalism, Social Realism, American modernism, American realism, Synchromism |
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