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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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Artist Profile |
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BIOGRAPHY: |
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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