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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 19, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 7 | $****** - ****** | Flood Disaster (Homecoming - Kaw Valley) |
paintings
64.7 x 92.7 cm (25.47 x 36.5 in)
oil and tempera on canvas mounted on plywood (original)
signed Benton and dated 51, l.r.
Collection or Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sosland, Shawnee, Kansas
(Constable Gallery, Missouri)
Graham Gallery, New York, until circa 1988 (acquired from the above)
(Joan Michelman, New York)
Ed Cantor, Palm Beach, Florida
(Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida)
Acquired by the present owners from the above
"Thomas Hart Benton in Omaha... An American Artist Has One of His Best Shows," Newsweek, December 3, 1951; "Havoc Stirs an Artist," The Kansas City Star, October 14, 1952; "An Artist Hits at Lagging Flood Relief," The Kansas City Star, October 14, 1951; "Artist Asking Congress to Aid Flood Victims," The New York Times, October 15, 1951; "The Representative Picks Up Some Valuable Trash," The Kansas City Star, October 19, 1951; "A Congressman Speaks (and Tosses the Benton Lithographs into the Wastebasket)," The Kansas City Star, October 22, 1951; "Some Kept Benton Pictures," The Kansas City Star, October 23, 1951; "Homecoming - Kaw Valley: Famous Artist's Appeal to Congress for Aid to Flood-Stricken Families," The Kansas City Star, 1951, illustrated; "Benton Lithograph Goes to Each Congressman," Vineyard Gazette, October 26, 1951; "His Drawing of Flood Ruins Accompanies a Magazine Item," The Kansas City Star, November 20, 1951; Thomas Hart Benton, "Disaster on the Kaw," The New Republic, vol. 125, no. 19, November 19, 1951, pl. 9, 10, 11, also illustrated on the cover; "Art Was Sold By Auction," The Kansas City Star, November 27, 1951; "Thomas Hart Benton in Omaha," Newsweek, December 3, 1951, p. 56, illustrated p. 57; Matthew Baigell, Thomas Hart Benton, New York, 1973, pl. 187, illustrated in color p. 228
