Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
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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
Benton in 1935
Camouflage pattern of the British ship S.S. Alban as documented by Thomas Hart Benton
People of Chilmark (Figure Composition), 1920, in the Hirshhorn Museum collection in Washington, D.C.
In 1924, Benton depicted three landmarks in New York City's Madison Square within his painting New York, Early Twenties.
Jackson Pollock
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Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
…Benton taught at the Art Students League of New York from 1926 to 1935 and at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1935 to 1941. His most famous student, Jackson Pollock, whom he mentored in the Art Students League, founded the Abstract Expressionist movement. Pollock often said that Benton's traditional teachings gave…
Pollock's passport picture (1955)
Pollock in 1928
Signature of Jackson Pollock on Pasiphaë (1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Pollock's studio in Springs, New York