Ben Benn

Cowboy and Horse
1917

A painting featuring abstract and cubist elements with a central figure wearing a bowler hat obscured by colorful shapes and lines. The background consists of blocks of color, and the date "1917" with the signature "Benn" is visible in the bottom right corner.

A painting featuring abstract and cubist elements with a central figure wearing a bowler hat obscured by colorful shapes and lines. The background consists of blocks of color, and the date "1917" with the signature "Benn" is visible in the bottom right corner.

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Date
1917

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 27 1/4 × 22 1/8in. (69.2 × 56.2 cm)

Accession number
70.51

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/858

Exhibitions

At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism

May 7, 2022–Feb 26, 2023

Ben Benn
3 works in the collection

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