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Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, (painting). Artist:  Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975, painter. Title:  Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, (painting). Dates:  1934. Medium:  Oil on masonite. Dimensions:  41 1/4 x 52 1/2 in. Description:  The scene depicting a rural landscape with three men seated around a table in the foreground, one man playing the violin, and other two playing harmonicas, while a man in the background stares at a knife he has just plunged into the chest of a woman seated in front of him. Subject:  Landscape -- Kansas Landscape -- Farm Figure group Performing Arts -- Music -- Violin Performing Arts -- Music -- Harmonica State of Being -- Death -- Murder Object -- Weapon -- Dagger Portrait male -- Pollock, Jackson -- Bust Occupation -- Art -- Painter Object Type:  Painting Owner:  University of Kansas, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 Accession Number: 58.55 Remarks:  Thomas Hart Benton included a portrait of Jackson Pollock as one of the harmonica players. The museum also owns a portrait of Jackson Pollock (Study for the Ballad of the Jealous Lover), done in pencil in 1934 (Accession number: 59.62). References:  "Handbook, The Museum of Art," Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1962, pg. 128. "Handbook of the Collection, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art," Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1978, pg. 112. Illustration:  "Handbook, The Museum of Art," Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1962, pg. 128. "Handbook of the Collection, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art," Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1978, pg. 112. 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 15930095   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 15930095 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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