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Cotton Pickers, Georgia

Thomas Hart Benton

Cotton Pickers, Georgia

Thomas Hart Benton
  • Date: 1928 - 1929
  • Style: Regionalism
  • Genre: genre painting
  • Media: tempera, oil, canvas
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
  • Dimensions: 72.6 x 91.1 cm
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Benton painted Cotton Pickers, Georgia from studies that he made during a trip through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia in the summer and fall of 1926. The artist returned to this same group of studies in conceiving and executing the America Today mural panel Deep South (1931). Activated by passages of frenetic brushwork and rich color, Cotton Pickers, Georgia retains much of the sketchy quality of Benton’s drawings, but it also exhibits the painter’s interest in rendering workers heroically. The artist recalled that his experience in the South "was the beginning of what came to be called my ‘Regionalism.’"

taken from The Met

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The Met excplication on 'Cotton Pickers, Georgia': www.metmuseum.org

Ferargil Galleries, New York, until 1933; sold to MMA

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