Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton - Moonlight on the Osage, 1938
tempera on masonite
Phillips Collection

Missouri's summer moon is big and white and cuts out vivid and clear edges... There is over these summer night waters and the shadowed lands that border them an ineffable peace, an immense quiet (Thomas Hart Benton)

Thomas Hart Benton - Spring Storm, 1958
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

Thomas Hart Benton - The Boy, 1949
ink and watercolor on paper

(Phillips Collection)