"If nothing else," says Burns, "Thomas Hart Benton is a hell of a ... and the larger New York-Paris art world with what was considered his folksy style. He returned to Missouri.

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.

Thomas Hart Benton depicted a self-reliant America emerging from the Depression. Ken Burns tells the bittersweet story of an extraordinary American artist who became emblematic of the price all ...

he considered how well Benton knew art history and art theory. The sculpture “Contact” (1970) from Thomas Hart Benton, who became enamored with football after his experience at a Kansas City ...

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Fifty years after Thomas Hart Benton suffered a heart attack and died ... from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to the Smithsonian America Art Museum in Washington, D.C. And then ...