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Drawing
Threshing
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889 - 1975
Benton, Thomas Hart
United States
1889 - 1975
Male
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
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Graphite
Graphite
ca. 1926-1928
1926
1928
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, drawing
Drawing
Most artists interested in depicting machine subjects looked to the city for inspiration. Thomas Hart Benton’s Regionalist vision looked to the rural areas of middle America for subject matter. In this drawing, Benton illustrates how an engine-powered threshing machine was fundamentally changing agricultural labor. Thomas Hart Benton was less interested in the physicality of the actual machine and more interested in the ways in which machines impacted the lives and labors of man.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
lower right
1977.153
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.153SL1
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full
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77.153DI1
digital image
2 x 2
7/23/2002
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77.153DI#3
digital image
11/18/2011
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