In february 1927, Thomas Hart Benton visited Borger, Texas. In 1928 Benton paintedBoomtoum(oil on canvas, 45 by 54 inches. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Marion Stratton Gould Fund) from sketches made in Borger.Boomtownwas, by the artist's retrospective admission, a milestone in his career; he called it “one of my best paintings” and “one of my best-known ‘Regionalist’ pictures.”