Thomas Hart Benton was a tremen- dously important American painter, printmaker, muralist, and art teacher. One of the leading proponents of the Regionalist art movement, he strove to create an art that was nostalgic in nature; celebrating the people, history, folklore, melancholy and beauty of small-town life in the mid-western United States. Benton worked in an easily recognizable and understandable style, and was not an advocate for Modernism, although he did live and work in New York City for more than 20 years. His fluid, sculpted figures represent everyday people, por- trayed in scenes reflecting American life. MICHAEL PARSONS ________________________ FINE ART Thomas Hart Benton 1889–1975, AMERICAN
Arkansas Evening or Nebraska Evening , 1941 Lithograph, Ed. of 250, 10 ₁ / ₁ ⁶ ˝ x 13 ₁ / ₁ ⁶ ˝ image size Published by Associated American Artists, New York
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