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 ...

The artist is Thomas Hart Benton ... critics consider Architect Urban’s best work). The Benton panels are entitled “America Today.” They cover nearly every inch of wall in the red-ceilinged ...

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 ...

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 ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — 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 losing ...