The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 8, 2026

A horizontally oriented pencil drawing on cream paper depicts a man wearing a hat walking away, carrying a sack and bucket. Centrally, two mules stand beneath a bare tree before sketched rolling hills. A dark, hatched cloud marks the upper right. Much of the paper is left blank. Handwritten text below reads, "This is the first sketch," next to the signature "Benton."

Approaching Storm (recto)

1938

Thomas Hart Benton

(American, 1889–1975)
America
pencil
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1940.36.a
Art © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Location: Not on view
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