Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Study for The Lord is My Shepherd

細節

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)
Study for The Lord is My Shepherd
oil on canvas
6 5/8 x 8½ in. (16.8 x 21.6 cm.)

來源

Richard Sternberg, Connecticut.
Michael Rosenfeld Fine Arts, New York, 1988.
Aaron Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri.
Private collection, New York.
Linda Hyman Fine Arts, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.

出版

C. Forbes, "The Forbes Magazine Collection," American Art Review, June 1999, pp. 128-141

展覽

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Benton's America, January-March 1991
New York, Linda Hyman Fine Arts, American Modernism: From Nature to Abstraction, October-December 1995
New York, Linda Hyman Fine Arts, Faces and Figures: The Modern American Tradition, April-May 1996, no. 2
New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries, 200 Years of American Art from the Forbes Magazine Collection, May-September 1999, no. 53

拍品專文

The present lot is a study for the large painting The Lord is My Shepherd in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The title of the painting is borrowed from "The Lord's Prayer" which is often recited at mealtime, and which appears on a wall plaque depicted in the final version. The couple at the table are George West and his wife Sabrina. Thomas Hart Benton first sketched the Wests in their kitchen in the summer of 1922, but did not finish this work until 1926.