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A Descriptive Catalog of the Works of Thomas Hart Benton: Spotlighting the Important Periods during the Artistโ€™s Thirty-two Years of Painting
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where Benton worked as a teacher. Several of Benton's students also made their own versions of the subject. A reporter from
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visited Benton in his studio during his work on this painting and his other famous nude painting from the same period,
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was Imogene Bruton. Bruton modeled for students at the school in the 1930s but abandoned modeling after completing
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A Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Present Day
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setting. Benton, dressed in farmer's clothes, plays the role of
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2,500,000, which was a new record for a Benton painting.
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Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing
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Thomas Hart Benton
Tempera
oil
glazes
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri
Thomas Hart Benton
Persephone
Midwestern
Pluto
Kansas City Art Institute
Life
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City
$
Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite
Judy Dater


"Bruton, Imogene"
ISBN
9781135959210
"Kansas City Museum to Buy Benton Painting"
The New York Times
Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing
London
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9780240824536
Thomas Craven

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