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Shallow Creek
Artist
Thomas Hart Benton
(American, 1889 - 1975)
Date1938–39
MediumOil and egg tempera on canvas mounted on board
DimensionsOverall: 35 15/16 x 25 in. (91.3 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 41 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (105.4 x 77.5 x 3.8 cm)
Frame: 41 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (105.4 x 77.5 x 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.31
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right: Benton
Inscribedverso top left: I33285; verso top right: 064.1 [partially obscured]
Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (112), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024 - present; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 - May 1, 2022.Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 114 (ill.), 115.