Thomas Hart Benton

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Thomas Hart Benton

American painter

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Born:: April 15, 1889, Neosho, Mo., U.S.

Died:: Jan. 19, 1975, Kansas City, Mo. (aged 85)

Movement / Style:: Social Realism

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Thomas Hart Benton (born April 15, 1889, Neosho, Mo., U.S.—died Jan. 19, 1975, Kansas City, Mo.) one of the foremost painters and muralists associated with the American Regionalists of the 1930s. The son of a member of Congress, Benton worked as a cartoonist for the Joplin (Missouri) American in 1906 and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied at the Académie Julian during a three-year stay in Paris and was briefly influenced by such modern movements as Synchromism and Cubism. Upon his return to the United States he moved in avant-garde art circles, but he abandoned modernism ...(100 of 292 words)

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