Yvonne Pène du Bois
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Yvonne Pène du Bois was an American artist who specialized in architectural subjects and landscapes. She received her art education privately from her father, Guy Pène du Bois, and as a student at the
Yvonne Pène du Bois, 1947, Girl in a Storm, oil on canvas, 16 × 20 inches
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
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Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures
Yvonne Pène du Bois
…student and, somewhat later, became his assistant teacher. Her other teachers included Kenneth Hayes Miller, Kimon Nicolaïdes, William Von Schegell, and Thomas Hart Benton. She later said it was at first difficult for her to accept that her work at the league was no better than the work of other students. In 1933 and 1937…
Benton in 1935
Camouflage pattern of the British ship S.S. Alban as documented by Thomas Hart Benton
People of Chilmark (Figure Composition), 1920, in the Hirshhorn Museum collection in Washington, D.C.
In 1924, Benton depicted three landmarks in New York City's Madison Square within his painting New York, Early Twenties.