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THOMAS HART BENTON The Texas Panhandle.
Pen and black ink and wash over pencil, circa 1928. 190x300 mm; 7 1/2x11 3/4 inches. Signed in black ink, lower right recto.
A Missouri native, Benton (1889-1975) visited the Texas Panhandle several times on sketching trips during the late 1920s. A number of similar drawings from these trips are illustrated in Marling, Tom Benton and his Drawings, 1985, pages 69 and 73.
According to Dr. Henry Adams, "The use of pencil, which was then gone over with pen and wash identifies this as one of Benton's travel drawings. Essentially he found that pencil drawings got smudged so he went over them in pen and wash. Also, I think he found that going over the very quick pencil sketches with pen and wash was a way of refining the image."
