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1930-31
Ten panels: Egg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground on linen mounted to wood panels with a honeycomb interior
92 x 160 in. (233.7 x 406.4 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Chilmark Landscape

1922
Oil on paper mounted on fiberboard
15 3/8 X 22 7/8 IN. (IRREG.) (38.9 X 58.1 CM.)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C.

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Cotton Pickers, Georgia

1928–29
Tempera and oil on canvas
H. 30, W. 35-3/4 inches (76.2 x 90.8 cm.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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As one of America's foremost Regionalist painters, Benton celebrated the bounty of the land and heroicized industrial laborers and farm workers in his murals and easel paintings. During the summer of 1928 he made a long road trip south through the cotton fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, in an old Ford station wagon that served...
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History of Missouri: City Slums

circa 1935
Oil on masonite
5 1/2 in. x 14 1/8 in. (13.97 cm x 35.88 cm)

Currier Museum of Art

Manchester, NH

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History of Missouri: Mormons

1935
Oil on masonite
4 3/4 in. x 11 3/8 in. (12.07 cm x 28.89 cm)

Currier Museum of Art

Manchester, NH

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Homestead

1934
Tempera and oil on composition board
25 x 34" (63.5 x 86.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

New York, NY

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Industry (Women Spinning)

1924–27
Oil on canvas
Image: 66 1/8 x 30 x 1in. (168 x 76.2 x 2.5cm) Frame: 72 x 36 x 3in. (182.9 x 91.4 x 7.6cm)

The Terra Foundation for American Art

Chicago, IL

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Lassoing Horses

1931
Watercolor over graphite on cream, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper mounted to a secondary paper
Sheet: 21 1/4 x 27 3/4 in. (54 x 70.5 cm) Frame: 28 x 36 x 1 1/2 in. (71.1 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Louisiana Rice Fields

1928
Egg tempera and oil on Masonite
30 1/8 x 47 7/8 in. (76.5 x 121.6 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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People of Chilmark (Figure Composition)

1920
Oil on canvas
65 5/8 x 77 5/8 in. (166.5 x 197.3 cm)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C.

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