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 ...

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 in his studio next to his home at 3616 Belleview in 1951. File The Kansas City Star Fifty years after Thomas Hart Benton suffered a heart attack and died at age 85 while working ...