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Flood
Thomas Hart Benton20th Century
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Melting snow and heavy rainfall caused the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to overflow in February 1937. The Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch sent Benton to southeastern Missouri to sketch the devastation. Flood captures the helplessness of two bewildered women separated from their submerged home by a force of nature they can neither cross nor control.
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Details
- Title: Flood
- Creator: Thomas Hart Benton
- Date Created: 20th Century
- Type: Lithograph on paper
- Rights: Art © Thomas Hart Benton and Rita P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Medium: Lithograph
- Art Form: Lithograph
- Support: paper
- Depicted Location: Missouri
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