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Threshing
ca. 1926-19289 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Thomas Hart Benton
United States (Neosho, MO, 1889 - 1975, Kansas City, MO)
Object Type:
Drawing
Medium and Support:
Graphite, ink and watercolor
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon K. Gross
Accession Number:
1977.153
Location: Not currently on view
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 Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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Artist's signature, lower right: Benton
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Masterpieces for Rochester: Acquisitions Since 1975 11/24/1978 - 1/7/1979
- From the Permanent Collection- The Working American Memorial Art Gallery 3/8/1980 - 4/6/1980
- Master Drawings from the Memorial Art Gallery Rochester Institute of Technology 10/9/1982 - 11/4/1982
- American Drawings and Watercolors, 1800-1945: Selections from the Permanent Coll Memorial Art Gallery 10/31/1987 - 1/3/1988
- Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/2012 - 5/6/2012
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Master Drawings from the Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1982.
- Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006.
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