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 ...

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.