Thirty-nine years ago this month, a Missouri boy named Thomas Hart Benton arrived at Chicago’s Art Institute to learn cartooning. “Besides cartoonists there were painting addicts,” he recalls.

"If nothing else," says Burns, "Thomas Hart Benton is a hell of a good story." Born in Neosho, Missouri, Benton was the product of a prodigiously unhappy marriage. Art was far from what his father ...

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 ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Access complete sale records for Thomas Hart Benton‏. Narrow your search using ...