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Photography by Dwight Primiano
Buffalo River
Photography by Dwight Primiano

Buffalo River

Artist (1889 - 1975)
Date1968
MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper mounted on board
Dimensions21 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (54 × 36.2 cm)
Framed: 33 in. × 25 1/2 in. × 1 1/2 in.
ClassificationsWatercolor
Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Signedl.r.: Benton 68
On View
On view
Label Text“The most beautiful rivers for making drawings and paintings are these rather small ones, with their bluffs in Missouri and Northwest Arkansas, like the Buffalo, which is one of the most beautiful in the United States.”

—Thomas Hart Benton

The Buffalo River, in the heart of the Ozarks, is renowned for its pristine waters and dramatic limestone bluffs. Thomas Hart Benton loved to “float” the Buffalo. In 1970, Sports Illustrated published “The Old Man and the River,” a feature on a five-day canoe trip Benton made along the Buffalo at age 81.

“Los ríos más bonitos para dibujar y pintar son unos más bien pequeños, con sus acantilados en Misuri y el noroeste de Arkansas, como el Buffalo, que es uno de los más bonitos de Estados Unidos”.

—Thomas Hart Benton

El río Buffalo, en el corazón de los Ozarks, es famoso por sus aguas cristalinas y sus espectaculares acantilados de piedra caliza. A Thomas Hart Benton le encantaba “flotar” por el Buffalo. En 1970, Sports Illustrated publicó “El anciano y el río”, un reportaje sobre un viaje en canoa de cinco días que Benton realizó por el Buffalo a los 81 años.
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