Alongside this “grand” scenery of Wyoming’s Southern Rockies, Benton continued depicting the state’s Great Plains. This experience of representing the varied West proved to be a life-giving …

Benton was the first artist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine and his murals hung at an early site of the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was during this time that Benton …

Out of the city, in the landscape, Benton explained that while portions of the Midwest might be flat, the clear horizon line “acts as an enclosure and sets a limit to things.” In contrast, the West …

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Jul 21, 2023 · Thomas Hart Benton spent his career pushing back against the aristocracy, both politics and art, to find himself a champion of mid-western rural America. He defined American …

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) painted The Arts of Life in America (1932) during the depths of the Great Depression. The series provided the artist with the second most complex project of …

Apr 15, 2015 · The artist is best known for his murals, including AMERICA TODAY, an epic, 10-paneled panorama that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and THE ARTS OF …

Benton’s art was well known for both its power and populist viewpoint, and he received numerous commissions for murals for public buildings, ranging from museums, to the Missouri State …

Sep 30, 2014 · Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) Deep South from America Today, 1930–31 Mural cycle consisting of ten panels, Egg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on …

In his magisterial America Today mural, Benton invented a muscular style intended to convey “the language of the street.”