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The Music Lesson, 1943
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Gift of John and Myrtle Coeexpand_more P.98.28.1
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A gifted draftsman, Thomas Hart Benton adopted lithography as his principal printmaking medium, its autographic qualities offering the same expressive possibilities as drawing. In the Music Lesson, Benton portrays celebrated folksinger E. Gale Huntington (1902-1993) teaching his young daughter a song on the guitar. Huntington was a local fixture on Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island near Cape Cod where Benton summered for some 50 years.
Details
- Title
- The Music Lesson
- Artist Life
- 1889–1975
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.98.28.1
- Provenance
- John and Myrtle Coe, Bloomington, Minn., until 1998; given to MIA.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Fath 60
- Curator Approved
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