{"product_id":"thomas-hart-benton-the-lord-is-my-shepherd-postcard","title":"Thomas Hart Benton \"The Lord is my Shepherd\" Postcard","description":"Thomas Hart Benton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and lived in Paris and New York, but upon returning to his native Missouri in the mid-1930s he rejected the avant-garde art movements and urban themes of those centers for a folksy, nationalistic realism that he developed in paintings and murals. Together with the painters John Steuart Curry, Joe Jones, and Grant Wood, he became a leading exponent of American Regionalism. The roughened hands of the husband and wife depicted in \u003ci\u003eThe Lord Is My Shepherd\u003c\/i\u003e testify to decades of hard work, and a Bible sampler on the wall affirms their faith. The couple assume a symbolic stature in this painting as emblems of a pious, simple life, though they were modeled on two specific individuals, Sabrina and George West. In Chilmark, the town where Benton summered for more than fifty years on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a particular form of hereditary deafness was prevalent and affected the Wests, among many others of Benton’s neighbors. This oversized postcard features Benton's \u003ci\u003eThe Lord is my Shepherd\u003c\/i\u003e (1926).","brand":"1-100190","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52622827815202,"sku":"1012937","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0765\/1675\/3698\/files\/1012937.png?v=1790275711","url":"https:\/\/shop.whitney.org\/products\/thomas-hart-benton-the-lord-is-my-shepherd-postcard","provider":"Whitney Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}