A pen sketch of a man in profile wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat and shirt.

Drawings

Portrait of a Cowboy

1929

Medium
Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (28.9 × 21.6 cm)
Accession number
31.495
Acquired
1931
Credit line
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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, Portrait of a Cowboy, 1929. Pen and ink, wash, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 1/2 in. (28.9 × 21.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.495. © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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