Name/Title
Pony Express Paintings by Benton H. Clark, Artist, Photos (7), c. 1960Entry/Object ID
P1996.1P.661Description
Pony Express Paintings by Benton H. Clark, Artist, Photos (7), c. 1960. b/w. Photos of paintings by western artist Benton Clark, three or four of which were commissioned by the Pony Express Museum in 1960 and hang in the "Messick" Gallery there. Clark also did other Pony Express paintings, one a cover of Saturday Evening Post. All paintings in this series signed by Clark in 1960 except #664 done in 1959. See 96.1P.659 for profile and photo of Clark.
Signed Benton Clark, 1960.
96.1P.661 = Painting of Alexander Majors (on left) and five Pony Express Riders on horseback in front of Patee House. Covered wagons in background. Typed on back: Benton Clark painting in Pony Express Museum. Alexander Majors and St. Joseph riders awaiting the start of Pony Express, April 3, 1860."
96.1P.662 = "So the Pony Express Could Leave St. Joe on Time" Painting by Clark for Saturday Evening Post. Depicts Pony Rider spurring his horse to start the journey from the mail car of the railroad. Train engine, coal car and mail car with its door open and man in doorway. Man behind is shooing the horse on, Group of men on left along engine waving their hats at the horse.
96.1P.663 = "Leaving the St, Joseph Stables" , painting of Pony Express Rider at full gallop, all four of the horses hooves off ground, as he spurs his mount away from the Pony Express Stables, seen in background. The mochila draped across saddle under Rider. Three men pictured behind horse, one man in front, all seem to be spurring horse on. Handwritten on back" Pony Express Leaving the Stables of St. Joseph, painting by Benton Clark in the Pony Express Stables Museum--St. Joseph, Mo."
96.1P.664 = "Christmas Mail", painting of Pony Express Rider, in buckskin, at full gallop. Mochila underneath him with U.S. stamped on pouch. Apaloosa pony traveling across flat plain. Handwritten on back: "Xmas Mail by Benton Clark, (original) owned by Direct Mail Advertising CO., New York." Signed Benton Clark, 1959. (on indefinite loan to Pony Express Museum, See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1960, Vol.. XII, No.2, cover).
96.1P.665 = Pony Express Rider Indian Attack. Depicts Pony Express Rider, in buckskin on Apaloosa pony, mochila underneath him. Horse is at gallop, Rider's hat hangs down his back, He has just shot his rifle, with smoke coming from barrel; an arrow is lodged in his bedroll behind saddle. Indian with full headdress on horseback galloping in front of large rock in distance. b/w. 4¼" x 6¼"
96.1P.666 = "Changing the Mochila" Painting of Rider in buckskin on ground removing mochila from horse, Another man on other side of horse holding reins. A third man on horseback to right and riderless horse grazing. In background is single story log cabin, windows aglow. "Station 1860 sign above door, man in doorway. (on exhibit at Pony Express Museum)
96.1P.667 = "Boarding the Ferry" . Rider whips is horse with his hat to jump it aboard the ferry from the wooden plank gateway. Another man is pulling the horse from its bridle. The ferry captain looks on from the left side. A stage coach with drivers has already boarded the ferry on right. A family is seen through the doorway in background. A canoe with two Native Americans paddles by on the river in the background. (on exhibit at Pony Express Museum)Lexicon
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Pony expressSearch Terms
Pony Express Art, Western Art, Pony Express RiderDimensions
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Printsize: 7¾" x 8¼"
one photo 4½" x 4"Relationships
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P1996.01P.00659, P1996.01P.00668Provenance
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Photos taken of oil painting by SJM staff photographer, Don Reynolds
