Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
2016
2015
2008
- Thomas Hart Benton ,Appleton Museum of Art ,Ocala, Florida, USA
- Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana Murals at 75: Public Art and the Public University ,Eskenazi Museum of Art ,Bloomington, Indiana, USA
- Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways ,Eskenazi Museum of Art ,Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Touchstones (for Jay) ,UK Art Museum ,Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955 ,Joslyn Art Museum ,Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- From the Vault: The 80th Anniversary Exhibition ,Oklahoma City Museum of Art ,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Legacy in Lines: Prints and Drawings from the Martin W. Brown Collection ,University of Maryland The Art Gallery ,College Park, Maryland, USA
- American Stories: The Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall Collection ,Schoelkopf Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
2024
- Historic Visions: On View at The Owings Gallery on E. Marcy Street ,The Owings Gallery ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- ONLINE: Holiday 2024: The Art of Gifting ,Heather James Fine Art, Jackson Hole ,Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
- Watermedia in the Age of Wyeth ,Greenville County Museum of Art ,Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Fall 2024 ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum ,Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College ,Clinton, New York, USA
- Summer Days ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Southern/Modern: 1913 - 1955 ,Dixon Gallery and Gardens ,Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Before the Screen ,Georgetown University Art Collection ,Georgetown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Celebrate 70: A History Of Collecting ,Pensacola Museum of Art ,Pensacola, Florida, USA
- From Sea to Shining Sea ,Texas A&M University Art Galleries ,College Station, Texas, USA
- Revolutions: Art From The Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960 ,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ,National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- The American Scene: 1910 - 1960 ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Finding American Form: 20th-Century Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Addison Gallery of American Art ,Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century ,Frist Art Museum ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Prints For The People ,Farnsworth Art Museum ,Rockland, Maine, USA
2023
- Autumn 2023 ,Susan Teller Gallery ,Soho, New York, USA
- Art of the American West: A Prominent Collection ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- Summer 2023 ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art ,Frist Art Museum ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Creative Exchanges: Artists in Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Address Books ,Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Three Degrees of Separation: Artistic Connections in the Permanent Collection ,Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum ,Naples, Florida, USA
- Modern ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Ruralism And Regionalism In American Art ,Cheekwood Estate & Gardens ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Speaking Figuratively: Narrative, Emotion, and the Body ,Cressman Center for Visual Arts ,Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Figurative Masters of the Americas ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
2022
- 20th Century American Art ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- From Boom to Bust: Modernism, Regionalism, & Social Realism (1920-1940) ,Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas ,Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
- Invaluable: Collection Treasures From Past Exhibitions ,The Grace Museum ,Abilene, Texas, USA
- Regionalism, Surrealism, and Climate Change: Recent Loans and Acquisitions ,David Owsley Museum of Art ,Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Unseen: The Process and Art of American Printmaking ,Canton Museum of Art ,Canton, Ohio, USA
- Summer 2022 ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism ,Westmoreland Museum of American Art ,Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Action!: Art In Motion ,Memphis Brooks Museum of Art ,Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Early Modern America: 1910s to 1950s ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- An American Place: Highlights from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection ,Palmer Museum of Art ,University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Road Less Traveled ,Sheldon Museum of Art ,Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Departures and Divisions: Variation in American Styles, 1900 – 1950 ,Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) ,Tacoma, Washington, USA
2021
- American Impressionism & Modernism ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- In American Waters ,Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ,Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Artist to Artist ,Smithsonian American Art Museum ,Downtown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Selections from the Permanent Collection 1850-1950 ,Taubman Museum of Art ,Roanoke, Virginia, USA
- The Annual Instructor Salon 2021 ,Art Students League of New York ,Midtown, New York, USA
- The American Landscape ,David Nolan ,Upper West Side, New York, USA
- Gallery Selections. Summer 2021 ,The Owings Gallery ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- In American Waters ,Peabody Essex Museum ,Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- Our Good Earth: Rural Life and American Art ,High Museum of Art ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Ways of Seeing: The Art of Trade, Travel, and Transportation ,Birmingham Museum of Art ,Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Collection Gems: Celebrating 85 Years of CMA ,Canton Museum of Art ,Canton, Ohio, USA
2020
- Explore The Vaults: Abstraction And The American Scene ,Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- New American Scene: Recent Acquisitions to the Figge Collection ,Figge Art Museum ,Davenport, Iowa, USA
- Pressing Issues: Printmaking As Social Justice In 1930s United States ,Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion ,Champaign, Illinois, USA
- ONLINE: The Art Students League Instructors’ Exhibition 2020 ,Art Students League of New York ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Traveling America: East To Midwest ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- First Impressions: New Works and New Acquisitions ,Forum Gallery ,Midtown, New York, USA
- American Prints II ,Museum of Art - DeLand Downtown ,Deland, Florida, USA
- American Modern. Paintings, Prints, and Photographs from the MFA's Collection ,Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection ,DMA, Dallas Museum of Art ,Dallas Arts District, Dallas, Texas, USA
- A Portrait Of Americana: American Life From The CMA Collection ,Canton Museum of Art ,Canton, Ohio, USA
2019
- Winter Selections | Holiday 2019 ,The Owings Gallery ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- The Priscilla and John Richman Gift of American Impressionism and Realism ,Norton Museum of Art ,West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- 100 Iconic Works From The Permanent Collection ,Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum ,Naples, Florida, USA
- 19th and 20th Century American Art ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Gallery Selections. Summer 2019 ,The Owings Gallery ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Gonzo! The Illustrated Guide to Hunter S. Thompson ,Speed Art Museum ,Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Etched in Time ,The Maitland Art Center ,Maitland, Florida, USA
- Food For Thought ,Canton Museum of Art ,Canton, Ohio, USA
- Associated American Artists: Prints for the People ,Portland Art Museum, Oregon ,Portland, Oregon, USA
- Mélange: Works on Paper ,Maryhill Museum of Art ,Goldendale, Washington, USA
- American Impressionists and 20th Century Works on Paper: Featuring Two Private Collections ,Debra Force Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Prints I wish I had published ,Bernard Jacobson Gallery ,St. James's, London, UK
2018
- Holiday Selections: Winter 2018 ,The Owings Gallery ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- The Masters: Art Students League Teachers and their Students ,Hirschl & Adler ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- The Masters Art Students League Teachers and Their Students ,511 Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Pictures at an Exhibition ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Modern American Prints, 1920-1948 ,San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) ,San Diego, California, USA
- American Modernism ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Outlaws in American Art ,Reynolda House Museum of American Art ,Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Cowboys from the Collection ,Great Plains Art Museum ,Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2017
- Picturing Mississippi ,Mississippi Museum of Art ,Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Crossroads: American Scene Prints from Thomas Hart Benton to Grant Wood ,San Jose Museum of Art ,San Jose, California, USA
- Making History Visible: Of American Myths and National Heroes ,Princeton University Art Museum ,Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Curious and Curiouser: Surprising Finds from the Rakow Library ,The Corning Museum of Glass ,Corning, New York, USA
- America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s ,Royal Academy of Arts ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915–1950 ,High Museum of Art ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Common Passages: Reconsidering the American Scene ,Mississippi Museum of Art ,Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- America on Paper: Prints from Associated American Artists ,Cedar Rapids Museum of Art ,Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
- Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints ,MOAS, Museum of Arts and Sciences ,Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
- Picturing Springtime ,Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ,Montgomery, Alabama, USA
2016
- Moonstruck ,Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ,Montgomery, Alabama, USA
- Masterworks of American Art ,Gerald Peters Gallery, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- David McCosh and the Midwest Regional Lithograph Tradition ,Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art ,Eugene, Oregon, USA
- American Scene on Paper ,Figge Art Museum ,Davenport, Iowa, USA
- Celebrating American Modern ,Richard Norton Gallery ,Chicago, Illinois, USA
- America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s ,The Art Institute of Chicago ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- America Seen! Regionalism from the American Art Collection ,Milwaukee Art Museum ,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Home Coming ,The Grace Museum ,Abilene, Texas, USA
- American Impressions ,Davidson Galleries ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- Kent Knowles: Wayward ,SCAD Museum of Art ,Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Dialogue: Modern and Contemporary Drawings from the WAM Collection ,Wichita Art Museum ,Wichita, Kansas, USA
- Master Printmakers ,The Columbus Museum ,Columbus, Georgia, USA
2015
- Shared Sensibilities: Weidenaar Among his Contemporaries and Predecessors ,GRAM, Grand Rapids Art Museum ,Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- Artists at Work ,Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ,Stanford, California, USA
- Painted Black: The John H. Surovek Collection ,Museum of Art - DeLand Downtown ,Deland, Florida, USA
- America the Beautiful: Works on Paper from The Mint Museum ,Mint Museum of Art, Uptown ,Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- America Is Hard to See ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Over Life’s Waters: The Coastal Art Collection of Charles and Irene Hamm ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Modernism Made in New Mexico ,Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Self: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence ,National Academy of Design ,New York, USA
2014
- Holiday Decorating ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Art in the Making ,FreedmanArt ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Thomas Hart Benton's America Today Mural Rediscovered ,The Metropolitan Museum of Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Works on Paper: Selections from the PMA Permanent Collection ,Pensacola Museum of Art ,Pensacola, Florida, USA
- Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art ,Frist Art Museum ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Glass Today: 21st Century Innovations ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012 ,El Paso Museum of Art ,El Paso, Texas, USA
- Selected Works by Gallery Artists for American Week ,Alexandre Gallery (291 Grand St) ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- No Place Like Home: American Scene Painting in the Sinquefield Collection ,Amon Carter Museum of American Art ,Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
- A Dozen Roses ,Spanierman Modern ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Richman Gifts: American Impressionism and Realism ,Norton Museum of Art ,West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Reflections of American Life: 100 Years of Prints ,George Krevsky Gallery ,Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
- Real/Surreal ,MMoCA, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ,Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- At First Sight: Collecting the American Watercolor ,Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ,Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2013
- 20th century American Printmakers ,Davidson Galleries ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- Discovering the American Modern 1907-1936: The King Collection ,El Paso Museum of Art ,El Paso, Texas, USA
- Telling American History: Realism from the Print Collection of Dr. Dorrance T. Kelly ,Bruce Museum ,Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Reunion: Highlights of The Collection ,Taubman Museum of Art ,Roanoke, Virginia, USA
- Reunion: Highlights of the Collection ,Taubman Museum of Art ,Roanoke, Virginia, USA
- Crosscurrents: A Treasury Through Time ,ACA Galleries (Office Space) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2012
- Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties ,Cleveland Museum of Art ,Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties ,DMA, Dallas Museum of Art ,Dallas Arts District, Dallas, Texas, USA
- African Americans and the American Scene, 1929-1945 ,Museum of Art, Williams College ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
2011
- A Singular Vision: Recent Gifts from the Freundlich Collection ,Harn Museum of Art ,Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties ,Brooklyn Museum of Art ,Brooklyn, New York, USA
- American Masterpieces from the Batten Collection ,The Chrysler Museum of Art ,Norfolk, Virginia, USA
2010
- A Treasury of American Prints from the Gilcrease Collection ,Gilcrease Museum ,Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Art Treasures from Regional Collections ,Erie Art Museum ,Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
- Reflections: Paintings of Florida, 1865-1965 ,Appleton Museum of Art ,Ocala, Florida, USA
- American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ,Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Reflections: Paintings of Florida, 1865-1965 ,Appleton Museum of Art ,Ocala, Florida, USA
- Ida Kay Greathouse: A Tribute ,Frye Art Museum ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- Turmoil and Triumph: American Works on Paper from the World War II Era ,Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- From Whistler to Warhol: Modernism on Paper ,HoMA, Honolulu Museum of Art ,Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2009
- Open Roads and Bedside Tables: American Modernism in The Frye Collection ,Frye Art Museum ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock ,The Whitworth ,Manchester, UK
- American Scenes: Art from the Depression Era in the High Museum Collection ,High Museum of Art ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Philip Koch: Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination ,Cape Cod Museum of Art ,Dennis Port, Massachusetts, USA
- America Works ,Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- Modernist Art From Southern Collections ,MOAS, Museum of Arts and Sciences ,Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
- After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest ,Des Moines Art Center ,Des Moines, Iowa, USA
2008
- American Modern ,Fundació Joan Miró ,Barcelona, Spain
- The Head Show Selected Portraiture from the Permanent Collection ,Sioux City Art Center ,Sioux City, Iowa, USA
- Cultivating America: Visions of the Landscape in Twentieth-century Prints ,Michael C. Carlos Museum ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Defining the West; Two Hundred Years of American Imagery ,Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas ,Dallas Arts District, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Model American Men ,Museum of Art, Williams College ,Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Good Impressions ,Mizel Center for Arts and Culture ,Denver, Colorado, USA
Thomas Hart Benton was an American Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1889. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Owings Gallery have featured Thomas Hart Benton's work in the past.Thomas Hart Benton's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 20 USD to 5,580,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,580,000 USD for Nashaquitsa, sold at Christie's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 444,680 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 18,825 USD.Thomas Hart Benton has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Observer and The Brooklyn Rail. The most recent article is Artists of the WPA - Auction Closing Soon written for Fine Art Connoisseur in January 2025. The artist died in 1975.
Artist's alternative names: Thomas Benton, Tom Benton
Artist's alternative names: Thomas Benton, Tom Benton
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