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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter Thomas Hart Benton's estate by selling his artwork for less than what it was worth and losing ...

Thomas Hart Benton's "The Harvest" (1941-1942) shows the death and destruction Americans anticipated might occur if the Axis powers attacked the United States, according to Joan Stack, curator of ...

After a five-month trial with 67 witnesses, 3,700 exhibits and a transcript of more than 14,000 pages, a Jackson County Circuit Court judge ruled that UMB Bank did not breach its duty to the famous ...

The Thomas Hart Benton mural "Independence and the Opening of the West" is at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. UMB lawyers said the allegations lack context and the ...

"The Sources of Country Music," Benton's last painting. The heirs of famed Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton are suing UMB Bank, claiming it mismanaged his estate, failed to track and maximize the ...

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Great Depression wreaked havoc on the world, especially in the United States. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president. With just under five months ...

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Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During his thirty-year term as a Democratic senator from Missouri (1821–51), Thomas Hart Benton avidly promoted U.S.