Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry , he was at the forefront of the …

Mar 2, 2025 · 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 …

Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist, and one of the central figures associated with the Regionalist art movement of the 1930s. Together with John Steuart Curry …

Thomas Hart Benton was one of America's most popular and heavily patronized modern artists during the decades leading up to World War II, and his murals were especially acclaimed. …

Jul 21, 2023 · Benton is best known for his large murals, including America Today and Arts of Life in America, but also created thousands of other works, including drawings, smaller paintings, …

Thomas Hart Benton established his reputation in the 1930s with five mural projects that changed the face of American Art and provided the principle artistic models for the Work Projects …

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) Benton fits the familiar mold of Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway—the roughneck artist, the temperamental genius disguised as a Joe.

A prolific painter, sculptor, printmaker and gifted storyteller, Benton is credited with leading the Regionalist movement in the United States early in his career. He has long been celebrated as …

Thomas Hart Benton is one of the most unique painters in the canon of art history, possessing a style entirely his own. His formal art training began at the Art Institute of Chicago at the turn of …

Jun 20, 2015 · Benton’s large-scale, historically-themed paintings were controversial but they also garnered him great notoriety as a muralist. In the mid 1930s, Thomas Hart Benton appeared …