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 ...

The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene painter Thomas Hart Benton and a Kansas City bank accused of mismanaging his estate, selling his pieces for below their market value ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. From reproductive rights ... arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter Thomas Hart Benton's estate by selling his artwork for less ...