As for the painting, he said, “I’ll put it in storage.” So … where did it end up? Most likely as an undisclosed part of a private collection, it seems. The Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio ...

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His paintings were burly. Energetic. And as uncompromising as the Midwestern landscapes and laborers they celebrated. Thomas Hart Benton depicted a self-reliant America emerging from the Depression.

"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 ...