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As a means of honing his painterly skills, Benton produced still lifes incorporating objects of diverse textures, such as <I>Pussycat and Roses</I>. The composition of this work may also have served as a study for a similar passage in <I>Persephone</I>, his notorious picture of the same year. In the Princeton painting, Benton depicted a Maltese kitten adopted by his students at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he taught until the clamor over the lascivious <I>Persephone</I> caused his dismissal. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nAround 1920, Benton renounced abstraction in favor of a type of social realism eventually known as Regionalism, the self-conscious accessibility and democratic aims of which focused on rural life and traditions, particularly of the American South and Midwest. 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