BENTON THOMAS H Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Gerwood

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REFERENCED PHOTOGRAPHS FOR HIS PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BENTON, THOMAS H. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Mr. Gerwood," explaining the only occasion on which he referred to a photograph in the making of a painting. 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds. Kansas City, 9 March 1974

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"I used photographs in making a painting only once. That was in making a portrait of Lincoln. I used several of them and made a small sculpture in plasteline from which I did the work."
In 1953, Benton executed a portrait of Lincoln in ink wash, graphite and gouache entitled "Young Abe Lincoln," which was reproduced as the frontispiece of Eifert's Three Rivers South, 1953.