Welcome back to The Current Corner! In this video, The Current’s Artist Award Manager, Victoria Miles has invited Current committee member, Umi Wagoner to discuss Thomas Hart Benton’s, “Aaron.”
Going into its second year, The Current, An Artist Award program is one of a kind in the region, establishing an unrestricted financial award for a Black artist living and working in Tacoma.
Thomas Hart Benton
(born Neosho, Missouri, 1889;
died Kansas City, Missouri, 1975)
Aaron, circa 1941
Lithograph on paper
Carolyn Schneider Collection
Gift of Col. and Mrs. A. H. Hooker