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Benton, Thomas Hart
| Last Name: | Benton |
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| First Name: | Thomas Hart |
| Dates: |
*1889 (Date of Birth)
*1975 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | Named a "child of controversy," Thomas Benton has had the most dramatic and interesting career in American art. Painter, muralist, anthropologist and lithographer, Benton turns the pages of history into powerful pictorial drama. Born in Neosho on the edge of the Missouri Ozarks, in 1889, he began his art training at sixteen at the Art Institute of Chicago. At nineteen he decamped for the Latin Quarter in Paris, but returned to work in America. This past year he completed the murals of the History of Missouri in the State Capitol of Jefferson City. He is permanently represented with works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New School for Social Research, and with a mural History of Indiana which is being placed by the State. Benton published his autobiography, "An Artist in America," which Tomas Craven called " the march of a clear-thinking positive personality." |
| Related Objects: |
1928.7 (Lithograph, Edge of Town, ca. 1938)
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