3 of 6 — Benton peers at his progress through a reducing glass. The lens allows artists to see a painting at a viewer’s distance without stepping back from the ...
An image of a Missouri official using a mural as a writing surface has spread far and wide. By anne marie hankins Thomas Hart Benton was part of the first generation of American artists to let the ...
At the Baltimore ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in June 2007, a woman arrived with a drawing of an African-American child in a hospital bed sketched by the great American regional muralist Thomas Hart Benton. The ...
Muralist Thomas Hart Benton's "The Sources of Country Music" — the legend's final painting — celebrates its 50th year of association with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (now in the museum's ...
Nick Vedros didn’t know what to expect when his uncle, Michael Mardikes, handed him a box of photo negatives. What he found inside took his breath away. More than 60 years ago, his uncle had captured ...