Excerpt from Thomas Hart Benton: A Retrospective Exhibition of the Works of the Noted Missouri Artist Presented Under the Patronage of the Honorable Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Truman of Independence, Missouri, April 12 to May 18, 1958 The museum is also fortunate in being able to publish an appraisal of the artist by the famous American art critic and writer - and alumnus of the University of Kansas - Thomas Craven. Through his perceptive discussion of Benton and his work, the significance of this exhibition is greatly enhanced. Our thanks also go to the Honorable Harry S. Truman, another great Missourian, and to Mrs. Truman, for agreeing to serve as the patrons of this exhibition, thus adding further luster to this significant artistic event. For their aid and their loans to the exhibition, the various major Ameri can museums, the University of Kansas City, and all the private collectors who are listed in the catalogue are also warmly thanked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Thomas Hart Benton: A Retrospective Exhibition of the Works of the Noted Missouri Artist Presented Under the Patronage of the Honorable Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Truman of Independence, Missouri, April

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An American in Art: A Professional and Technical Autobiography.

University Press of Kansas

A Thomas Hart Benton miscellany;: Selections from his published opinions, 1916-1960

Controversial, flamboyant, contentious, brilliant--Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was certainly all of those. Few American artists have stirred so much love and hatred as he did in a career that lasted almost seventy years. Although his painting aroused much controversy, perhaps equally as much was created by his words, for his piercing wit, profane sarcasms, and insightful condemnations were fired off without restraint. In this fiery and provocative autobiography, Benton presents an intriguing records of American art and society during his lifetime.
The first installment of this work was published in 1937, but Benton continued his life story in chapters added to editions published in 1951 and 1968. This new edition includes seventy-six drawings that add much to his narrative, plus a foreword discussing Benton's place in American art and an afterword covering his career after 1968, both written by art historian Matthew Baigell.
Although Benton is most famous as a regionalist painter and muralist, his complex and fascinating career brought him into contact with many of the most important artists and thinkers of the century, including Jackson Pollock, Grant Wood, Julian Huxley, Felix Frankfurter, Eugene Debbs, John Reed, and Harry Truman. While living in New York and on Martha's Vineyard in the 1920s and 1930s, Benton often associated with leading intellectuals and radicals. However, when his evolving principles of art led him away from an interest in Marxism, he was bitterly attacked by many of his former friends, and his account of that time reveals strikingly the fierce critical battles he faced in trying to establish his own artistic vision.
Critics on the Left were not his only opponents, however, and equally revealing are his responses to the moral condemnations heaped on his murals done for the states of Indiana and Missouri and on his realistic nudes of the late 1930s.
Throughout his account, from descriptions of his boyhood in southwest Missouri, his travels, and his career to discussions of specific works of art and other artists, Benton portrays people and events as vividly in words as he does in his paintings.

An Artist in America 4th Revised Edition (Volume 1)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Missouri

4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. 80 pp, 48 illustrations (20 in color, including cover), exhibition checklist. Exhibition November 3 - December 19, 1984, followed by showings at Bucknell University (PA), the Queens Museum (NYC) and the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (NY).

Thomas Hart Benton: Chronicler of America's folk heritage

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Thomas Hart Benton: A Retrospective Exhibition of the Works of the Noted Missouri Artist Presented Under the Patronage of the Honorable Harry S. ... April 12 to May 18, 1958 (Classic Reprint)

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