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 ...

"Thomas Hart ... Benton preferred to hang them in saloons, where ordinary people could appreciate them in congenial settings. A fierce defender of the aesthetics of realism, Benton took on the art ...

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