"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.

The ten panels of America Today, his most important mural, show Benton as a painter celebrating (and sometimes critiquing) the whole of American life. Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was an artist ...

An archived version of a November 1969 Kansas City Star article on Thomas Hart Benton, the famed painter who sketched scenes from the sidelines of Chiefs games and practices.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

The egg was hurled with a will by tough, swart little Missouri Painter Thomas Hart Benton. Growled he: the average museum was “a graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in ...

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