Likely the most important painter of the American Scene* movement,
Thomas Hart Benton created a style and addressed subject matter that
was uniquely American as well as specific to his state of Missouri, and
that combined elements of modernism and realism. His signature
painting was regionalist* genre, especially laboring figures. In
addition to many murals, he also painted landscapes and portraits.
Benton
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Thomas Benton is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
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