Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton (born April 15, 1889, Neosho, Mo., U.S.—died Jan. 19, 1975, Kansas City, Mo.) was one of the foremost painters and muralists associated with the American Regionalists of the 1930s. The son of a member of Congress, Benton worked as a cartoonist for the Joplin (Missouri) American in 1906 and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied at the Académie Julian during a three-year stay in Paris and was briefly...