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Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)  

Professions: Painter; Illustrator

About Thomas Hart Benton Benton's Biography Examples of Benton's Work - 1,258 Literature on Benton - 5 Artfact 1,000™: American Painting: 20th Century Related Artists: Regionalism: American Related Artists: American Scene Painting Related Artists: Synchromism Web Sources - 27 Marketplace for Thomas Hart Benton Auction Price Records - 1,258 Auction Houses - 75 Alert Me about Benton

Biography

(b Neosho, MO, 15 April 1889; d Kansas City, MO, 19 Jan 1975). American painter, illustrator and lithographer. He was the son of a congressman and first studied art in Washington, DC, where he saw the murals in the capital’s public buildings. In 1907 he enrolled for a year at the Art Institute School in Chicago, visiting Paris the following summer. He studied until early 1909 at the Académie Julian and thereafter independently. Benton rejected ... (view more)

(b Neosho, MO, 15 April 1889; d Kansas City, MO, 19 Jan 1975). American painter, illustrator and lithographer. He was the son of a congressman and first studied art in Washington, DC, where he saw the murals in the capital’s public buildings. In 1907 he enrolled for a year at the Art Institute School in Chicago, visiting Paris the following summer. He studied until early 1909 at the Académie Julian and thereafter independently. Benton rejected academic methods and was exposed to both the Louvre and modernist styles; his interests seem to have focused on Impressionism and Pointillism. In Paris he met Diego Rivera and a number of fellow American artists, such as John Marin and Stanton Macdonald-Wright, who had a lasting influence on him. He also read and admired Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, whose thought countered modernist ‘art for art’s sake’ attitudes with a sense of the artist’s responsibility to the social milieu.  (hide)

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