Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...
Thomas Hart Benton, Ploughing it Under, 1943, reworked 1964; oil on canvas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. 2006.73 Courtesy the Mint Museum The Mint Museum Uptown in ...