Peggy Reynolds
Thomas Hart Benton American
Not on view
In 1929, Benton sketched this portrait of the well-known burlesque star Peggy Reynolds. He used the sketch as one of dozens of drawings to compose his mural America Today, also in the Museum’s collection (2012.478a–j). Reynolds appears in the City Activities with Subway mural panel as the lone woman subway rider with a short haircut, a style that marks her as a newly enfranchised, partially liberated "flapper."
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