A glamorous woman in a blue dress fixes her hair with a hand mirror while men gamble and drink.

Paintings

Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire)

1948

Medium
Tempera and oil on linen mounted on composition board
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
Accession number
85.49.2
Acquired
1985
Credit line
Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest
Reproduction credit
© T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Thomas Hart Benton, Poker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire), 1948. Tempera and oil on linen mounted on composition board, sheet (sight): 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Mrs. Percy Uris Bequest 85.49.2. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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