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Painting
Boomtown
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889 - 1975
Benton, Thomas Hart
United States
1889 - 1975
Male
46 1/8 x 54 1/4 in. (117.2 x 137.8 cm)
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Egg yolk and oil
Egg yolk and oil
1928
1928
1928
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, cityscapes, Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, paintings
Painting
Early in his career, Thomas Hart Benton was involved in the American abstract movement, Synchromism. In the 1920s, Benton embarked on a style that incorporated Synchromist rhythmic line and expressive color with representational imagery of rural America. With this major shift in style, Benton established the Regionalist movement. Many consider Boomtown to be the artist’s first Regionalist masterpiece.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Boomtown is one of the masterpieces of the Gallery's collection because of its impressive and unique depiction of an American landscape. When Thomas Hart Benton sketched this panoramic scene from a second floor window, the smoky fire on the horizon signified progress, not pollution. Borger, Texas was a boomtown that sprang to life in 1926 after a refinery company hit a gusher that produced 5000 gallons of oil a day.
Benton is one of the three major American Regionalists (the other two are Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry), so called because most of their subjects were about life in the rural heartland of America.
While Benton was not a fan of contemporary modernist painting, and in fact disdained artists who painted in the abstract style, he couldn't help but be influenced by the curvy and streamlined aesthetic of his times and the way in which artists were reinterpreting three-dimensional space. Consider the way in which the people, buildings and landscape are layered from top to bottom on the canvas, rather than being laid out carefully from front to back in the manner of traditional artistic renderings.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
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Painting
Negro Head
John Steuart Curry, (Dunavant, KS, 1897 - 1946, Madison, WI)
Curry, John Steuart
United States
1897 - 1946
Male
24 x 18 1/2 in. (61 x 47 cm)
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1927
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1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, Images of Black People, men, paintings, portraits
Painting
Until research identifies the sitter, Portrait of a Youth or Portrait of a Young Man may be applied as a more appropriate title.
Unfortunately, the name of this young man was not recorded. The title that the work has carried for many years is further dehumanizing. In the historical moment when this painting was made and exhibited, the term “negro” was commonly used—including by significant African American figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Langston Hughes—to refer to a Black person. Today, however, this terminology is outdated and inappropriate.
John Steuart Curry is known for his narrative and landscape paintings of life in his home state of Kansas. When he painted this luminous portrait, he had just returned from studying art in Paris, France.
[Gallery label text, 2024]
yes, lower right
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Painting
The Printseller's Window
Walter Goodman, (London, 1838 - 1912, London)
Goodman, Walter
England
1838 - 1912
Male
52 1/4 x 44 3/4 in. (132.7 x 113.7 cm)
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Oil
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1883
1883
1883
1800-1900, 19th century, jobs & work, men, paintings, trompe l'oeil
Painting
Painted in the illusionistic technique of trompe l’oeil (French for “fool the eye),” The Printseller depicts a heavily-bearded shopkeeper cradling a small statuette of Cupid. The display case before him contains a variety of objects, including prints, books, coins in a porcelain dish, a magnifying glass, a wineglass, a strand of pearls and a metal tankard. Many of the prints are reproductions of famous paintings that would have been familiar to Walter Goodman’s audience of the early 1880s.
A string of small photographs called cartes-de-visites stretches across the display case. These small photographic portraits, sized to mount on a visiting card, became extremely popular; a craze developed for collecting the cartes of celebrities as well as family and friends. Here, each represents a famous Victorian painter of Goodman’s time, including John Everett Millais, Rosa Bonheur, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema (fourth, sixth, and ninth from the left, respectively). A larger photographic portrait of the famous art critic John Ruskin is located in the center directly below the string of cartes.
Although relatively unknown, Walter Goodman was an interesting and practiced artist with a varied career as a portraitist, illustrator and writer. Of Jewish heritage, he was the son of portraitist Julia Salaman Goodman. He was widely traveled and an intimate member of London’s theatrical society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution.
lower rightback of stretcher, per 1999 conservation report; partial label, mostly illegible. [possibly The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR), a railway company in the UK from 1846 to 1923? ran to Victoria Station, London]back of stretcher, per 1999 conservation reportback of stretcher, per 1999 conservation reportback of stretcher, per 1999 conservation reportback of stretcher, per 1999 conservation report. Inscription has been effaced.back of stretcher, per 1999 conservation report.back of canvas, per 1999 conservation report. back of canvas, per 1999 conservation report. back of canvas, per 1999 conservation report.back of stretcher, per 1999 conservation report; partial label, mostly illegible [possibly So. Kensington Museum?]back of stretcher, scratched into the wood
1998.75
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Painting
Interlude
John Koch, 1909 - 1978
Koch, John
United States
1909 - 1978
Male
50 1/8 x 39 7/8 in. (127.3 x 101.3 cm)
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1963
1963
1963
1900-2000, 20th century, artists, making art (depictions), men, nudes, paintings, Realism, self portraits, women
Painting
John Koch was a master of the tradition of American realism. His warm, intimate, and elegant New York City interiors glow with light that is reflected by well-polished furniture, floors, and silver.
In this painting, the artist’s wife (piano teacher Dora Zaslavsky) offers a cup of tea to the nude artist’s model, while the artist sits in the background and contemplates his canvas. A variation on the theme of artists and models, Interlude also is an expression of the generosity of human relationships. As one of Zaslavsky’s former students wrote, “…her philosophy of care and concern for the individual student helps shape my teaching to this day.”
[Summer 2015]
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Painting
Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun
Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny, France)
Monet, Claude
France
1840 - 1926
Male
25 1/2 x 39 1/4 in. (64.8 x 99.7 cm)
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1903
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1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, cityscapes, Impressionism, London, England, paintings
Painting
Monet loved London for its fog. During his 1901 visit to the city, he attempted to capture the evanescent effects of its misty climate in a series of views of Waterloo Bridge under varying conditions. Each time the light and weather shifted, he began a new canvas or returned to the one that recorded that particular atmosphere. Monet did not complete the paintings in London. He perfected them in his studio in France over the next three years. Thus, this painting records not only the artist's immediate response to the scene, but also his memory of it.
[Gallery label text, 1999]
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Painting
The Fox and the Heron
Frans Snyders and workshop, (Antwerp, 1579 - 1657, Antwerp)
Snyders, Frans
Flanders
1579 - 1657
Male
Artist
Workshop of Frans Snyders
Flanders
Male
Artist
47 1/8 x 61 1/4 in. (119.7 x 155.6 cm)
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ca. 1630-1640
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1600-1800, 17th century, birds, fables & fairy tales, foxes, paintings
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Monumental and decorative animal painting developed in Antwerp in the 17th century in the immediate circle of Rubens. Snyders, whose workshop was famous for this type of work, often also collaborated on the animals, flowers, and fruit in his friend Rubens's paintings. The rendering of materials such as the fur of the fox, the plumage of the bird, and the transparency of the glass jar add to the interest in texture.
"The Fox and the Heron" is a story from Aesop's Fables. In the background, the fox invites the heron for dinner and offers only a bowl of soup, impossible for the heron to eat. In the foreground, the heron in turn invites the fox. Dinner is served in a long-necked glass jar and the fox can only lick the outside.
Moral: One bad turn deserves another!
[Gallery label text, August 1996]
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Painting
Peeling Onions
Lilly Martin Spencer, 1822 - 1902
Spencer, Lilly Martin
United States
1822 - 1902
Female
36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
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1847
1857
1800-1900, 19th century, food, genre scenes, home life, jobs & work, paintings, women
Painting
lower left, in frontmost peach. Second numeral unclear.
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