id:			159275
accession number:	1995.70
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.70
updated:		2025-02-09 05:18:18.765000

G.O.P. Convention, Cleveland, 1936. Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975). Pen and brush and black ink and black crayon, with graphite; image: 35.6 x 51.5 cm (14 x 20 1/4 in.); sheet: 37.4 x 53.2 cm (14 3/4 x 20 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1995.70 Art © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

title:				G.O.P. Convention, Cleveland
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creation date:			1936
creation date earliest:		1936
creation date latest:		1936
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright:			Art © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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culture:	America
technique:	pen and brush and black ink and black crayon, with graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889–1975)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 35.6 x 51.5 cm (14 x 20 1/4 in.); Sheet: 37.4 x 53.2 cm (14 3/4 x 20 15/16 in.)
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	description:	creme(2) wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in black ink: Benton
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		American Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1998-04-19T00:00:00
	<i>American Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, New York, NY
	date: by early 1950s-before 1995
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	(Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, NY)
	date: ?-1995
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 4, 1995
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,” December 20, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4002

	"Museum Acquisitions." <em>Drawing</em> 17, nos. 4-6 (November 1995 - March 1996): 105.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 105
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 36 no. 10, December 1996
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-10/page/6

	DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 258-258, pp. 297-298; Reproduced: p. 259
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	Mazow, Leo G. <em>Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound</em>. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 65-67; Reproduced: p. 66
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	"Exhibitions." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 4 (July/August 2016): 4.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Back cover.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-04

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