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Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975) was active/lived in Missouri, Massachusetts.  Thomas Benton is known for Modernist art, abstraction, regionalist easel and mural painting.

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BENTON, THOMAS HART

Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri on April 15, 1889.  Even as a boy, he was no stranger to the "art of the deal" or to the smoke-filled rooms in which such deals were often consummated.  His grandfather had been Missouri's first United States Senator and served in Washington for thirty years. His father, Maecenas Benton, was United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri under Cleveland and served in the United States House of Representatives during the McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations.  Benton's brother, Nat, was prosecutor for Greene County, Missouri, during the 1930s.

As soon as he could walk, Benton traveled with his father on political tours. There he learned the arts of chewing and smoking, and while the men were involved in their heated discussions, Benton delighted in finding new cream colored wallpaper on the staircase wall,  at the age of six or seven, and drew in charcoal his firs   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24505 characters.]  Artist bio

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