
Thomas Hart Benton
Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time, he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father''s political family and the quiet life of his Appalachian grandfather. In his twenties, he would find his calling in New York,...
Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time, he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father''s political family and the quiet life of his Appalachian grandfather. In his twenties, he would find his calling in New York,...