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.
Persephone (painting)
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Persephone is a 1938–1939 painting by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts the Greek goddess Persephone resting nude beside a tree in a rural Midwestern landscape while a farmer, standin
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
…gain material advantage despite the Industrial Revolution. During the late 1930s he created some of his best-known work, including the allegorical nude Persephone. It was considered scandalous by the Kansas City Art Institute, and was borrowed by the showman Billy Rose, who hung it in his New York nightclub, the…
Thomas Hart Benton Persephone