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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Benton, Thomas Hart,     Landscape -- Massachusetts     Landscape -- Lake     Portrait female -- Benton, Rita     Portrait female -- Scott, Henry, Mrs. (Rita)     Portrait male -- Scott, Henry     Portrait male -- James, Frederic     Portrait female -- James, Frederic, Mrs. (Diana)     Recreation -- Picnic     Recreation -- Sport & Play     Painting

Menemsha Picnic, (painting). Artist:  Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975, painter. Title:  Menemsha Picnic, (painting). Dates:  1943. Medium:  Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on panel. Dimensions:  48 x 36 in. Inscription:  (Upper right:) Benton/50 '51 signed Description:  View looking toward the sandy shore of Menemsha Pond on Martha's Vineyard, where a small group of figures gathers for a picnic, some seated on a blanket with their picnic baskets, and others in the background wading into the deep blue water. Included in the group are portraits of the artist's wife Rita Benton, and their friends Rita and Henry Scott, and Diana and Frederic James. In the foreground an empty tin can with the lid partially pried off rests on a rock beside a gnarled oak tree. Subject:  Landscape -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard Landscape -- Lake -- Menemsha Pond Portrait female -- Benton, Rita -- Full length Portrait female -- Scott, Henry, Mrs. (Rita) -- Full length Portrait male -- Scott, Henry -- Full length Portrait male -- James, Frederic -- Full length Portrait female -- James, Frederic, Mrs. (Diana) -- Full length Recreation -- Picnic Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Swimming Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 457 West Broadway, New York, New York 10012 References:  Lubin, Mary, "50 Recent Acquisitions," New York, NY: Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., 1990, pg. 10. Illustration:  Lubin, Mary, "50 Recent Acquisitions," New York, NY: Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., 1990, pg. 10. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 68020156   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 68020156 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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