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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975) • Persephone • 1938-39 • Tempera with oil glazes on canvas, mounted on panel • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

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Nashaquitsa, 1953. Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on canvas.

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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) • Still Life with Spring Flowers • 1949

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Wyoming Landscape

Thomas Hart Benton

1967

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Thomas Hart Benton, Spring Storm, 1958

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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) • The Woman in White • Unknown date

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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975), Trail Riders, 1964-65, oil on canvas, 67.5 × 85.375 inches (171.5 x 217 cm.); National Gallery of Art, gift of the artist, not on view. Digitally enhanced.

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Thomas Hart Benton, Arts of the West, 1932

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Thomas Hart Benton - Fishermen's Camp, Buffalo River (1968)

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Thomas Hart Benton

The Station

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Thomas Hart Benton (United States 1889-1975) 

Keith Farm, Chilmark  1955

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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) • Spring Ploughing • c. 1940 • Sotheby's

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Evening Concert, 1952. Thomas Hart Benton. Oil Tempera gessoed board.

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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Nashaquitsa, 1953. Oil on canvas, 22 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.

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Thomas Hart Benton Jesse James, from the Missouri State Capitol Mural Series, 1936 - Lithograph on Rives paper with GCM watermark, signed in pencil, from the edition of 100. - 16 1/4 x 21 7/8in

Thomas Hart Benton’s "A Social History of the State of Missouri". The mural, which is located in the House Lounge, has been open for public viewing since its completion in 1936.

Thomas Hart Benton with his painting Persephone via Kansas City Public Library

Thomas Hart Benton - Persephone

Thomas Hart Benton: 10 Facts About the American Painter

Thomas Hart Benton Was Born In A Small Missouri Town

Benton Attended The Art Institute Of Chicago And Académie Julien In Paris

He Was An Illustrator For The U.S. Navy During WWI - (Photograph Below)

He Was Jackson Pollock’s Teacher

He Was Head Of Kansas City Art Institute’s Painting Department

He Had Some Interesting Run-Ins With Magazines - (Explanation Below)

Benton’s Mural With Ku Klux Klan Members Still Sparks Controversy (Mural & Controversial Panel Below)

He Created A Mural For Missouri’s Capitol Building (Above the Fold)

Benton Was An Avid Harmonica Player

You Can Visit Thomas Hart Benson’s Home In Kansas City

Thomas Hart Benton Service Photo 

In 1934, Thomas Hart Benton was the first artist to ever appear on the cover of TIME Magazine.

Thomas Hart Benton - "Hollywood" - 1938

In 1937, Life Magazine commissioned a large painting from Benton on the subject of Hollywood, even paying for him to take a trip there over the summer of that year. His famous painting, Hollywood, was completed in 1938. When Life Magazine first saw the work, they immediately disapproved and wanted nothing to do with it, but the popularity of the work changed their tune and they included it in their spread about Hollywood.

A Social History of Indiana by Thomas Hart Benton, 1933, via The University of Indiana Bloomington

Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned to create a large mural for the state of Indiana in 1932 and it was presented at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. The mural, A Social History of Indiana, is made up of 22 large panels, spanning 250 ft in total, representing the state of Indiana.

The inclusion of the Ku Klux Klan brought heavy criticism when the mural was exhibited at the World’s Fair, but this didn’t stop the mural from being one of the most popular exhibits.

Cultural Panel 10 ("Parks, the Circus, the Klan, the Press") depicts a vivid, startling image of a Ku Klux Klan rally and a burning cross. The Klan had ruled Indiana politics during the 1920s—much to the embarrassment of progressives like Col. Lieber who preferred to bury the state's sins of the past.

Cultural Panel #10 - The controversial panel, it is sad to see many of todays younger generation missing the point and simply looking to be offended by the past. (In 2017, students passed around a petition calling for its removal to which the university declared the lecture hall where it hangs will no longer be used for classes).

In Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana mural, he attempts to point out the full history of Indiana, the good and the bad. Benton was not celebrating the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) in the mural, yet reminding the people of Indiana to recognize the past evils and how they were overcome.

Born: April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, son of Maecenus Eason Benton and Elizabeth Wise Benton

Died: January 19, 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri while finishing a large mural for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee

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Thomas Hart Benton, Cradling Wheat, 1939

Thomas Hart Benton, Threshing Wheat, 1939

Thomas Hart Benton, Wheat, 1967

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