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Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

American painter, muralist, and printmaker; leading figure of Regionalism.

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Benton died in 1975 while completing his final mural in his studio.[1]

Key facts and history

Benton's father, Colonel Maecenas Benton, was a four-time U.S. congressman and named his son after his own granduncle, a U.S. Senator.[2][3] He enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907 and moved to Paris in 1909 to study at the Académie Julian.[4] In Paris, Benton met Diego Rivera and Stanton Macdonald-Wright, adopting a Synchromist style under the latter's influence.[5] After moving to New York City in 1912, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War I, making realistic drawings of shipyard work that strongly affected his later style.[6]

Benton married Rita Piacenza in 1922, and they had a son and a daughter.[7][8] Jackson Pollock, who later established the Abstract Expressionist movement, was the most renowned pupil of Benton.[9] In 1975, while working in his studio, Benton passed away as he was finishing his last mural, The Sources of Country Music.[1]

What the cited sources add

The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame account notes that Benton's student Glen Rounds studied at the Art Institute in Kansas City and traveled the country one summer with Jackson Pollock.[10] The same sources report that Benton began producing signed, limited-edition lithographs sold at $5.00 each through the Associated American Artists Galleries.[11] Benton's autobiography An Artist in America received positive reviews, and author Sinclair Lewis remarked, "Here's a rare thing, a painter who can write."[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Thomas Hart Benton Biography", New Britain Museum of American Art, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: WETA, "Thomas Hart Benton: Benton Profile", PBS, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Benton Genealogy - Missouri State Parks", mostateparks.com, 9 February 2011; WETA, "Thomas Hart Benton: Benton Profile", PBS, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Thomas Hart Benton: Murals in the Missouri State Capitol", benton.truman.edu (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Craven, "American Art: History and Culture", McGraw-Hill, 2003, p. 439 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Exhibit on artist Thomas Hart Benton highlights influence from Navy stint" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hufstader, "Benton's Vineyard Legacy Lives On in His Work and Family", The Vineyard Gazette, September 19, 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Thomas Hart Benton's Heirs Accuse UMB Bank of Mismanaging the Renowned Kansas City Artist's Works", 19 December 2019; "Jessie Benton, 83", Vineyard Gazette, February 22, 2023; "Once-Notorious '60s Commune Evolves into Respectability : After 19 Years the Lyman Family Prospers as Craftsmen and Farmers", Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1985; Van Zuylen-Wood, "The Life and Death and Rebirth of Boston's Counterculture", Boston Magazine, February 19, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, p. 137, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990; "Glen Rounds", North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame; "Malcolm Blue Society Celebrates 40 Years", ThePilot.com, 8 July 2013 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Glen Rounds", North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. facts only, no text reused. nclhof.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Thomas Hart Benton (painter)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Slim, Jim, and Lem", Newsweek, November 1, 1937, p. 25; The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton. Compiled and edited by Creekmore Fath. University of Texas Press, 1969, p. 3.; "Thomashartbentonlithographs.com" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Thomas Hart Benton (painter) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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