JEFFERSON CITY — When artist Thomas Hart Benton returned to his home state in 1935, his name was almost synonymous with Missouri. Benton had risen to prominence as an American regionalist artist ...

Although he'd been to soirées in "Paree" and New York's Stork Club, American artist and muralist Thomas Hart Benton played a harmonica and reveled in his self-honed image as a hard-drinking ...

master of painting technique himself, to comment on Breton, whom he greatly admires. “Thomas Hart Benton was an intensely erudite progressive who saw the beauty in the need and function of all ...

His paintings were burly. Energetic. And as uncompromising as the midwestern landscapes and laborers they celebrated. "Thomas Hart Benton" depicts a self-reliant America emerging from the Depression.

The Neosho Arts Council announced multiple winners during the 2nd annual Thomas Hart Benton Youth Art Competition and Exhibition.

The 29th annual Thomas Hart Benton Art Competition and Exhibition is also on view through October at the Big Spring Gallery inside the Neosho Area Chamber of Commerce, 216 W. Spring St. It's also ...

The mission of The New School Art Collection, in recognition of its historic commitment ... José Clemente Orozco's A Call for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood and Thomas Hart Benton's epic America ...

Regionalism is represented in the Met’s show with a lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton, who had studied art in prewar Paris—the avant-garde’s ground zero—and claimed to have destroyed his early work “to ...

American artist Thomas Hart Benton thought it crucial to highlight the dark spots in the state's history A history of caricatures exposes the inside jokes Richard Field was an undergrad with ...

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Benton's namesake is depicted in one of four murals in the Missouri Senate chamber and was also depicted as a character during the 1924 pageant celebrating the new Capitol. In the summer of 1936, ...