Every head is a real person drawn from life,” he is quoted as saying in Thomas Hart Benton: The America Today Murals by Emily Braun and Thomas Branchick. Benton took on the gargantuan task of ...

Thomas Hart Benton depicted a self-reliant America emerging from the Depression. Ken Burns tells the bittersweet story of an extraordinary American artist who became emblematic of the price all ...

Lawyers for Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims UMB Bank mismanaged the ...

Although he'd been to soirées in "Paree" and New York's Stork Club, American artist and muralist Thomas Hart Benton played ... for celebrating rural America. As for Benton himself, Burns's ...

Cancel anytime. A museum patron looks at “The Engineer’s Dream” by Thomas Hart Benton at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. on Oct. 23, 2008. KANSAS CITY, Mo.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter Thomas Hart Benton’s estate by selling his artwork for less than what it was worth and ...

Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking $85 million. They got $35,000. That’s the culmination of a five-month trial over a lawsuit brought in 2019 by the Kansas City artist’s daughter and ...