“was the most important thing, so far, I had ever done for myself as an artist.”
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Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
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culture · American painter (1889–1975) · painter · university teacher · draftsperson · muralist · cartoonist · lithographer · graphic artist · teacher · illustrator · printmaker · also Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Benton, Thomas H. Benton, Tom Benton, T. H. Benton
Born 15 April 1889 · Died 19 January 1975 · Q471764
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2012· 1 entry
Works by Thomas Hart Benton at the State Historical Society of Missouri
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1984· 1 entry
The murals were purchased and restored by AXA Equitable to hang in the lobby of the AXA Equitable Tower at 1290 Sixth Avenue in New York City
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1977· 1 entry
Benton's 21⁄2 story late-Victorian residence and carriage house studio in Kansas City was designated by Missouri as the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site
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1975· 2 entries
Died 1975-01-19.
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At work in his studio, as he completed his final mural, The Sources of Country Music, for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee
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1973· 1 entry
Said, "If I have any right to make judgments, I would say that the Missouri mural was my best work"
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1961· 2 entries
Won Golden Plate Award (1961).
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Benton was chosen as one of 50 outstanding Americans of meritorious performance in the fields of endeavor, to be honored as a Guest of Honor to the first annual Banquet of the Golden Plate in Monterey, California
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1954· 1 entry
As an Associate member and became a full member in 1956
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1953· 1 entry
Five of the panels were purchased by the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut, and have since been displayed there
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1944· 1 entry
Benton appeared in an episode of John Nesbit's Passing Parade titled “Grandpa Called It Art,” that showed several contemporary artists at work
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1942· 1 entry
Titled Saturday Night at Tom Benton's
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1940· 1 entry
Along with eight other prominent American artists, to document dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film The Long Voyage Home, a cinematic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays
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1937· 1 entry
Benton published his autobiography An Artist in America, which was critically acclaimed
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1935· 1 entry
After he had "alienated both the left-leaning community of artists with his disregard for politics and the larger New York-Paris art world with what was considered his folksy style", Benton left the artistic debates of N
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1934· 1 entry
Benton was featured on one of the earliest color covers of Time magazine
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1932· 1 entry
Benton also painted The Arts of Life in America, a set of large murals for an early site of the Whitney Museum of American Art
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1920· 1 entry
That he found himself, and the painting style for which he would become famous
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1909· 1 entry
To continue his art education at the Académie Julian
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1907· 1 entry
Benton enrolled at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-04-15.
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