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This is Marjorie Searl speaking about the painting Boomtown by Thomas Hart Benton.
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Before you is Boomtown, by Thomas Hart Benton. Completed around 1928, Boomtown is roughly 46 inches high by 54 inches wide. This complex, oil on canvas painting captures a snapshot of an active oil town, set in a panoramic landscape of the rolling hills of the Texas Panhandle. The foreground of the painting depicts a mid-day, bustling street scene in Borger, a town that grew up almost overnight in the mid-1920s. In a busy intersection to the left of center we see lively, one-dimensional caricatures of men and women, parked Model T cars, and hastily erected buildings lining a newly-created dirt road. The turquoise hills in the background are dotted with oil rigs and dominated by a dramatic plume of dark gray smoke.Your current search criteria is: Object is "Boomtown".
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