Missouri Farm, 1970

by Roger Medearis (1920–2001)
Tempera on board
16 x 24 inches
Signed lower left: MEDEARIS; on verso: MISSOURI FARM / 16” x 24” / PAINTED IN EGG TEMPERA / (WITH ACRYLIC POLYMER EMULSION) / PAINTED ON HARDBOARD PANEL WHICH HAS / BEEN COATED WITH ACRYLIC GESSO. / VARNISHED WITH “LIQUITEX SOLUVAR.” / 1970 Roger Medearis / MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA

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Provenance Private collection, Massachusetts Sale, Eldreds Auction Gallery, East Dennis, Massachusetts, April 6, 2019, lot 830

Note: After a decades-long hiatus from painting, Medearis began a new career in the late 1960s. Painted shortly afterward, this work embodies his regionalist style, shaped by his instructor Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975).

Artist Biography

A Missouri native, Roger Medearis studied under the famed regionalist Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute. Under Benton’s influence, Medearis developed a detailed preparatory method of sketching and creating three-dimensional clay models of his subjects. He was featured in the important 1950 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Painting Today. During World War II, Medearis worked as a draftsman for the United States Navy, but after the war, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism and waning interest in Regionalism, he gave up painting. He would not begin making art again until the 1960s, with the

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