Thomas Hart Benton

City Building

1930

Several workers using tools and machinery on a busy industrial waterfront construction site.
Several workers using tools and machinery on a busy industrial waterfront construction site.

Thomas Hart Benton, City Building, 1930. Tempera and crayon on board, overall (sight): 15 3/8 × 19 5/16 × 1/4 in. (39.1 × 49.1 × 0.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.391. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1930

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Tempera and crayon on board

Dimensions
Overall (sight): 15 3/8 × 19 5/16 × 1/4 in. (39.1 × 49.1 × 0.6 cm)

Accession number
31.391

Credit line
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Rights and reproductions
© T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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