Name: Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)
Brand: Study for 'Industrial Progress'
Price: 5000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)
Study for 'Industrial Progress'
inscribed with various notations (in the margins)
pencil and pen on paper
image, 4 x 24 in. (10.2 x 60.9 cm.);
sheet, 7 x 24⅞ in. (17.8 x 63.2 cm.)
Executed in 1933.

Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
[With]Ylise Kessler Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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We would like to thank Dr. Henry Adams and Andrew Thompson for their assistance with cataloguing this work. In 1933, Benton painted the Social History of the State of Indiana for the state's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair. The commission resulted in twenty-two panels measuring a total of 45,000 square feet, depicting the cultural and industrial history of Indiana. The present sketch is a study for eight of the eleven industrial panels, beginning with The Fur Traders, then Pioneers, Home Industry, Internal Improvements, Civil War, Expansion, The Farmer and Coal, Gas, Oil, Brick. The panels now hang in the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Indiana.