The painting Achelous and Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton. It was originally painted in 1947 for Harzfeld's, a department store in Kansas City, and was donated to the Smithsonian when the store closed in the 1980s.
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[url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=1910]Smithsonian American Art Museum[/url]
Gift of Allied Stores Corporation, and museum pur...
Size:
62 7/8 x 264 1/8 in. (159.6 x 671.0 cm.)
Medium:
Tempera and oil on canvas mounted on plywood
Credit:
This photographic reproduction is in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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