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Schoelkopf gallery announced Monday that it will exclusively represent the trust of Regionalist painter\u00a0Thomas Hart Benton<\/a>, with the aim of raising the artist\u2019s profile internationally as a major influence in 20th\u00a0century Modernism.<\/p>\n

Schoelkopf, which recently moved to\u00a0Tribeca<\/a>, will kick off the representation at this week\u2019s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with six lavish Benton pictures executed between 1925 and 1973, two years before the artist passed away in his studio while working on a mural destined for the Country Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something we\u2019ve wanted for 30 years,\u201d Andrew Schoelkopf, the gallery\u2019s founder, told\u00a0ARTnews.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cEverybody knows that he is one of America\u2019s great storytellers. His narrative paintings have always attracted a huge following, but he\u2019s been for so long cast in that Regionalist mold, like Grant Wood, but the truth is that Thomas Hart Benton also one of the Great American modernists who was totally immersed in the crucible of the development of abstraction and modernism between 1910 and 1920 in both New York and Paris. That part of his story is much less well known.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Edward Hopper, Benton\u2019s pictures seem like the could be stills from an early 20th\u00a0century film. So many of his canvases show an America still wild, unkempt, and unspoiled by todays ubiquitous modern conveniences.<\/p>\n

Also like Hopper, Benton went to Paris in the 1910s and became enthralled with the modernist abstract school born out of Cezanne\u2019s work only to\u2014again, like Hopper, who was seven-years older than Benton\u2014 eschew the style for the figurative work that made him famous. According to the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Benton said modern art was \u201cgood for nothing but to release neurotic tensions\u201d in an autobiography published in 1951.<\/p>\n

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The works on view at Schoelkopf\u2019s booth are a hint at what the gallery has in mind for future programming. In 2024, the gallery will host an exhibition of works Benton made during his travels through the American West. While that series is less well known than what Schoelkopf called Benton\u2019s \u201cHeartland in America paintings,\u201d the artist\u2019s travels through New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado produced some of his most cinematic works.<\/p>\n

One such work,\u00a0Wyoming Landscape<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1967), will be among the works on view during Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting betrays it\u2019s 10.5 x 19.5 inch dimensions with a golden warmth that embraces the principals a young Benton absorbed in Paris\u2014evident in the color planes that constitute the vastness depicted in the landscape. The work shows that, while Benton pooh-poohed modern art, the principles of abstraction still had a place within his practice. In that same autobiograph,y Benton said that \u201ccontrary to popular belief, the \u201cRegionalism\u201d movement did not in any ways oppose abstract form. It simply wished to put meanings, recognizable American meanings into some of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through the Trust, the gallery will be able to bring a great many paintings and works on paper to the primary market. \u201cThere are paintings, mural studies, and some really quite interesting drawings,\u201d Schoelkopf said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very wide array and substantive body of work that remains, most of which hasn\u2019t been seen in 35 or 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n

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