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Compositional Aspects of West Side Express

A Circa 1920-21 26″x22″ Oil on Stretched Canvas

Features:

  • German Expressionism
  • Realism / Precisionism
  • Abstraction / Cubism
  • Surrealism
  • 1st known Regionalist Cityscape by Benton
  • 1st known moving train in a Cityscape by Benton
  • 2nd known clay-modeled figures in a Benton painting
  • Benton’s only known large palette knife painting (sculpted)
  • Benton’s 1st known blending of architecture, painting and sculpture
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