Benton, Thomas Hart

An Artist in America; 4th Edition

Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals (Distributed for the Indiana University Art Museum)

Decorating the Indiana hall at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago was a bold and colorful sequence of paintings by American muralist Thomas Hart Benton depicting the social, economic, and cultural history of the Hoosier state from mound building to the 1930s. In this dramatic 250-foot mural, which has been on display at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University since 1940, Benton sought to create art that spoke to a mainstream audience in a realist style.

This book features a full-color gatefold which represents the flow of the murals along with a portfolio of color reproductions of the 22 existing panels. Accompanying essays trace the history of the murals' creation and their installation at Indiana University, the visual narrative that Benton invented, the artist's method as seen in a series of preparatory drawings, and a detailed account of the conservation of the murals.

Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry

Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest—such as American Gothic, Politics in Missouri, and Baptism in Kansas—Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry have long been lumped together under the rubric the "Regionalists." James M. Dennis offers a fresh and sophisticated look at the modernist tendencies of this trio of American painters, arguing that the individual styles of Wood, Benton, and Curry were both mislabeled and misunderstood. Revisiting the artistic and political culture of America between the World Wars, he shows that critics and ideologues—from Time Magazine to the Partisan Review—pigeonholed, praised, or pilloried the Regionalists to serve their own critical intentions.

Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original

Tom Benton and His Drawings: A Biographical Essay and a Collection of His Sketches, Studies, and Mural Cartoons

Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original [Exhibition Catalog]

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), noted muralist, regionalist painter, art theorist, instructor of Jackson Pollock, and controversial figure in the world of art and politics. Though pigeonholed as a regionalist chronicler of the Midwest, many of his finest on-site pictures are of Southern blacks and poor whites. Remembered best are his folksy rural scenes and aggressively three-dimensional murals, but the public tends to forget that he ran through the gamut of modernist styles and that his brilliant abstract color experiments ally him with the modernist movement. Curated by Henry Adams; organized by Ellen R. Goheen; Checklist by Goheen. During 1989-90, exhibition travelled to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Detroit Institute of Arts; Whitney Museum of American Art & Los Angeles County Museum of Art. stapled pictorial wrappers. 24 pp, 97 illustrations (9 in color, including cover). Note that this is an exhibition catalog, not the monograph subsequently published with a similar title.

Thomas Hart Benton: Chronicler of America's Folk Heritage

Classroom use of the art print.(self portraits): An article from: Arts & Activities

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Title: Classroom use of the art print.(self portraits)
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 137 Issue: 4 Page: 28(1)

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Notes on the New School murals,

Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton