Focus on this artwork and discuss the Creation.
The painting was commissioned by the film studio Norma Productions to help promote the film The Kentuckian, directed by and starring Burt Lancaster. Both Lancaster and the producer Harold Hecht were admirers of Benton and took the initiative for the commission. Among Benton's sketches for the painting is one version where the characters are drawn as cube-figures.
The Kentuckian Harold Hecht Norma Productions Burt Lancaster