Explore the abstract of this artwork, The Kentuckian (painting).
The Kentuckian is a 1954 painting by American artist Thomas Hart Benton. It is based on a scene from the film The Kentuckian, where the backwoodsman Big Eli Wakefield (played by Burt Lancaster) and his son Little Eli (played by Donald MacDonald) encounter a frontier village. The painting belongs to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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