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 ... with a silver-topped cane along the sidelines during yesterday’s player warmup at the Chiefs-San Diego game looked totally out of place ...

And as uncompromising as the midwestern landscapes and laborers they celebrated. "Thomas Hart Benton" depicts a self-reliant America emerging from the Depression. Today his works hang in museums.

Fifty years after Thomas Hart Benton suffered a heart attack and died at age 85 while working in his Belleview Avenue studio, his legacy still resonates as one of the most significant American ...