COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0008484
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Work Title (display):
City Activities with Dance Hall
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1930
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-07-15
Work Creator (display):
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American painter. Born in Neosho, Mo., Benton attended the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907. In 1908 he went to Paris where he was deeply influenced by Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Returning to New York in 1912 he adopted Wright's theories in paintings like Constructivist Still Life: Synchromist Colour (1917; Columbus, Oh., Gal. of Fine Arts). Around 1920, he abandoned modernism, which he later opposed vehemently, and from 1924 travelled in the south and midwest recording rural, small town life. By 1929 he was associated with Grant Wood and John Curry as a regionalist, extolling the virtues and values of non-metropolitan America. Like earlier generations of American social realists Benton was anxious to democratize art and to this end conceived an ambitious pictorial history of the United States in 64 panels, sixteen of which were completed. However his desire for accessibility was achieved at the expense of subtlety, and his murals of contemporary America (19301; New York, School for Social Research), compartmentalized into irregular individual scenes, are only saved from banality by their raw energy. By the 1940s his reactionary views made him increasingly isolated. (Grove Art Online accessed 2007-10-27)
Work Style Period:
American realism
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American realism
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Work Style Period:
social realism
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social realism
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Work Style Period:
Regionalist (American Scene)
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Regionalist (American Scene)
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Work Style Period:
Modernist
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Modernist
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false
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Synchronism
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Synchronism
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Work Subject:
acrobats
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acrobats
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Work Subject:
theater
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theater
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Work Subject:
dance
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dance
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
drinking of alcoholic beverages
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drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Work Subject:
musical instruments
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musical instruments
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Work Subject:
music
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music
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Work Worktype:
mural paintings (visual works)
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mural paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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paintings
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paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
distemper and egg tempera with oil glaze on gessoed linen
Work Measurements (display):
92 in (H) x 117 in (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
AXA Financial Inc.
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
owner
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
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Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-500-28715-6
Image Source Reproduction page number:
424
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
7.53
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ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Thomas Hart Benton
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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