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.

Although he'd been to soirées in "Paree" and New York's Stork Club, American artist and muralist Thomas Hart Benton played a harmonica and reveled in his self-honed image as a hard-drinking ...

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 ...

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