![]() It’s in a fascinating cluster of Wood-related art and objects, feeling almost like a mini-museum exhibition. The exhibition includes a Wood landscape that hung in his studio at the time of his death in 1942 that gallery Director Buck Kiechel says is the last post-“American Gothic” painting still on the market. The best-known regionalist painting - and likely the best-known American painting ever - is Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” from 1930. But the fact that Pollock studied with Benton is evidence of the prominence and respect of the regionalists in the 1930s and 1940s. It’s “Sweet Betsy from Pike,” after the old folk song.īenton’s most prominent student was Jackson Pollock, whose work certainly doesn’t look like regionalism. The three big names of the mid-20th century movement associated with the Midwest are joined by lesser-known artists, such as Roger Medearis, Benton’s second most prominent student, who’s represented by a 1948 wagon train painting that very much reflects Benton’s stylistic influence. If you’re a regionalism fan, you’ll want to get to Kiechel Fine Art between now and Thanksgiving to catch “Defining America: Images of the 20th Century,” an exhibition that includes works by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry - some of it rare and little seen. Strong regionalist show at Kiechel Fine Art includes rarities
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