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Benton, Thomas Hart Biography Regionalist American painter, known for his vigorous, colorful murals of the 1930s, mostly of rollicking scenes from the rural past of the American South and Midwest. Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then spent three years in Paris studying at the Academie Julian. Living in New York City after 1912, Benton turned away from modernism and gradually developed a rugged naturalism that affirmed traditional rural values. By the 1930s he was riding a tide of popular acclaim along with his fellow regionalist Grant Wood. Benton emerged as the spokesman for the American Regionalist painters about 1929. His portrayals of Midwestern people and landscapes are done in an original style marked by rhythmically undulating forms and plasticity of movement, stylized features, cartoonlike figures, and brilliant colour Benton taught at the Art Students League in New York City, where Jackson Pollock was one of his pupils. You can buy Thomas Hart Benton fine art reproduction oil paintings at Galerie Dada. Just click on the 'Back' button. |
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