Thomas Hart Benton

Portrait of a Cowboy

1929

A pen sketch of a man in profile wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat and shirt.
A pen sketch of a man in profile wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat and shirt.

Thomas Hart Benton, Portrait of a Cowboy, 1929. Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (28.9 × 21.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.495. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1929

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (28.9 × 21.6 cm)

Accession number
31.495

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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