In Homestead, Benton depicts a farmer in front of a house and weather vane in a distorted yet naturalistic style. The artist was associated with a movement called Regionalism that romanticized rural life in the United States. From 1926 to 1935 he taught painting at the Art Students League of New York, deeply influencing a new generation of artists in the city, including a young Jackson Pollock. Benton continually traveled throughout the United States, taking days-long walking excursions in the countryside. In 1935 he left New York and moved back to Missouri, where he grew up, to lead the painting department at the Kansas City Art Institute.

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521: American Idioms, 2025

Medium Lithograph
Dimensions composition: 10 3/16 × 13 1/8" (25.9 × 33.4 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 × 15 13/16" (29.9 × 40.2 cm)
Publisher Associated American Artists, New York
Printer George C. Miller & Son, New York
Edition 250
Credit Purchase
Object number 34.1953
Department Drawings and Prints

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