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Thomas Hart Benton is
known for his distinctive scenes of rural America. His paintings
brought subjects from the Midwest, particularly of his native
Missouri, into the realm of "high art" for the first time.
Cradling Wheat is a lithograph based on a 1938 painting
located in the City Museum of St. Louis. Benton described it as an
old-fashioned harvest scene in the hill country of East Tennessee
around 1928.
Born into a politically famous family on April 15, 1889, in
Neosho, Missouri, Benton studied at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., during his father's tenure in the House of
Representatives. In 1907 he studied at the Art Institute of
Chicago and in 1908 left for Paris to study at the Academies
Julian and Collarosee. During the 1920s, Benton experimented with
various modern styles, including cubism and synchronism.
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