www.mural.ch: werke

dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)

künstler: Thomas Hart Benton

titel: America Today: Changing West. City Activities With Dance Hall. City Activities With Subway. City Building. Coal. Deep South. Instruments of Power. Midwest. Outreaching Hands. Steel

jahr: 1930–31

adresse: New School for Social Research (today: New School University), 3rd floor, West 12th Street, New York (today: collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 945 Madison ave, New York)

+: 10 panels. 6 x 92x117 inches, 2 x 92x134 ½ inches, 92x160 inches, 17 1/8x97 inches

Sold in 1982 by the school to the insurance company AXA, the mural was located at 787 Seventh Avenue, then, from 1996 to 2012, at 1290 Avenue of the Americas / 52nd Street. AXA equity has donated the masterwork to the Metropolitan Museum, which will exhibit the panels by 2015 in the Marcel Breuer building formerly used by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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