A fine strong impression of this iconic image.

Benton had studied in Paris from 1908 to 1911, learned French and was exposed to the very beginnings of cubism and other key modernist movements. He then returned to the US and became a leading Regionalist artist and an art teacher. Although essentially conservative aesthetically, Benton was in many respects a modernist himself; in Spring Tryout we can see some of the lines and patterning that may have led a next generation of artists - most particularly Clyfford Still, and Benton's student Jackson Pollack - to move beyond the American realism of the '30's.

A painting of this subject, also entitled Spring Tryout, is in the collection of the Charles H. MacNider Museum in Mason City, Iowa.