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Shallow Creek
Shallow Creek
Shallow Creek

Shallow Creek


Artist (American, 1889 - 1975)
Printer (1894 - 1965)
Date1939
MediumLithograph
DimensionsPlate: 14 3/16 x 9 3/8 in. (36 x 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 11 15/16 in. (40.6 x 30.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2005.32
ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameLithograph
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on view
Century
  • Twentieth
More Information
Signedbottom right: Benton; in plate bottom right: Benton
Edition250
Exhibition HistoryGeorge Miller and American Lithography, Palmer Museum of Art, June 18–September 15, 2019 Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways, Palmer Museum of Art, September 4–December 2, 2007; Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, January 10–February 17, 2008; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, March 18–May 18, 2008 Published ReferencesLeo G. Mazow, Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), xii (no. 67), 127, 128 (fig. 67), 173n25. Leo G. Mazow, "Regionalist Radio: Thomas Hart Benton on Art for Your Sake," The Art Bulletin 90, no. 1 (March 2008): 104, 105 (fig. 4), 120n26. Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2007), 3, 11, 21, 23 (fig. 31), 52 (no. 25).