"If nothing else," says Burns, "Thomas Hart Benton is a hell of a good story ... where he persevered as an impoverished painter for more than a decade but found his "regionalist" roots.

And as uncompromising as the Midwestern landscapes and laborers they celebrated. Thomas Hart Benton depicted a self-reliant America emerging from the Depression. Ken Burns tells the bittersweet ...

An archived version of a November 1969 Kansas City Star article on Thomas Hart Benton, the famed painter who sketched scenes from the sidelines of Chiefs games and practices. “From a distance ...