The Ballad of Thomas Hart Benton

From: Humanities | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Wolff, Justin | Copyright information

Like the mountain music he loved, the rowdy life of American artist Thomas Hart Benton has the larger-than-life quality of folklore. His reckless behavior, heavy drinking, profanity, and belligerence toward any artist who took a different stylistic or ideological path scandalized people from New York to New England to Missouri. Over the years he opposed abstract painters, curators, homosexuals, intellectuals, Harvard, New York City, Kansas City, women, and old friends such as Alfred Stieglitz...

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