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 Thomas Hart Benton  (1889 - 1975)

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Lived/Active: Missouri/Massachusetts      Known for: regionalist easel and mural painting, illustration, graphics
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QUICK FACTS AND KEYWORDS for Thomas Hart Benton
Birth/Death Lived/Active Often Known For
- 1889 (Neosho, Missouri)
- 1975 (Kansas City, Missouri)
Missouri/Massachusetts regionalist easel and mural painting, illustration, graphics
Artist Colony
* Ste. (Sainte) Genevieve Art Colony, Missouri

  
Exhibition: Museum
* Art Institute of Chicago
* Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
* Museum of Modern Art, New York
* National Academy of Design-
* Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
* Whitney Museum of American Art

  
Methods
* Ceramic Pottery
* Easel Painting
* Illustration, Illustrator
* Murals of Fresco, Mixed Media, Mosaic or Paint
* Printmaking, Graphic Design
* Sculpture, Sculptor

  
Media
* Acrylic
* Bronze
* Ceramics, Porcelain
* Charcoal
* Crayon
* Egg Tempera
* Fresco
* Gouache
* Graphite, Pencil
* Ink
* Lithography, Lithograph
* Mixed-Media, Multi-Media
* Oil Paint
* Pastel Painting
* Pen and Ink
* Pottery
* Tempera
* Watercolor, Watercolour

  
Styles
* Abstraction, Abstract
* Gestural/ Action /Drip Painting
* Impressionism Before 1940
* Modernism, Modernist Early 20th Century Non-Traditional
* Realism, Representation, Realist, Naturalist
* Synchromism

  
Subjects
* American Scene
* Animals, Zoology
* Architecture Images-Buildings, Houses, Structures
* Botanics
* Coastal, Shoreline Views
* Desert Landscape
* Female Face and Figure
* Figure, Figurative, Human Figure
* Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
* Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
* Gardens, Garden Scenes
* Genre, Human Activity
* Hand-Crafted Object
* History: Historical Figures, Sites, Events
* Hunting and Fishing Genre, Field and Stream
* Industry, Industrial Scenes, Labor Genre and Figure
* Landscape
* Marine, Maritime, Nautical, Boats
* Mountain Views
* North American Frontier Genre
* Nude Figure
* Portrait
* Regionalism, Local Scene
* Religion, Mysticism, Spiritualism
* Social Realism
* Still Life
* Streetscenes, Streetscapes
* Western: Cowboys, Indians, Horses

  
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
* Central Park, New York City
* West Virginia Before 1920

  
Associations
* Associated American Artists
* Kansas City Society of Artists
* National Academy of Design

  
Teacher
* Jean Paul Laurens

  
Schools
* Academie Julian, Student
* Academy Colarossi, Student
* Art Students League of New York, Student
* Art Students League of New York, Teacher
* Kansas City Art Institute, Teacher
* New School For Social Research, Student
* School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student

  
Awards/Recognition
* Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy

  
Chronology
* Early 20th Century Before 1950
* Late 20th Century After 1950

  
Some Collections
* Anschutz Collection
* Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
* Hainsworth Collection
* Ken Trevey Collection
* Susan & Herbert Adler Collection
* William Foxley Collection-Western

  
Added Description
* Art Educator: School Teaching, Public Lectures, Workshops
* Camouflage Artist
* Commercial Art, Advertising
* Figure Specialty
* Genre Specialty
* LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
* Mural Specialty
* Printmaking Specialty
* SCRIBNER'S Magazine Illustrator
* WPA, Federal Arts Project Participant

  
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