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| Thomas Hart Benton
American 1889 -1975
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| Born: |
Neosho, Missouri, United States
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| Died: |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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| Studied: |
Corcoran Art School, Washington
Art Institute of Chicago
Academie Julien, Paris 1908
Academie Colarossi, Paris 1908
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| Examples of Work: |
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum of Art
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
City Art Museum, St. Louis
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missour
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
University of Nebraska
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Lithographer
Instructor
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| Style/School: |
Regionalism
Realism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Figural
Genre
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design p. ANA 1954; NA 1956
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| Teaching Positions: |
Art Students League, New York City 1926 -
Kansas City Art Institute 1935-1940
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Thomas Hart Benton was born in 1889. He began his artistic career with training at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1906-7 and then went to Academie Julian in 1908-11. While in Europe he was influenced by works of El Greco and ...
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Likely the most important painter of the American Scene Movement, Thomas Hart Benton created a style and addressed subject matter that was uniquely American as well as specific to his state of Missouri, and that combined elements of modernism and realism. His signature painting was regionalist ...
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