A museum shelter for art - and snowshoers Nov 15, 2009
(Works that the conservation center has restored include Vincent van Gogh s Irises, Thomas Hart Benton s America Today murals, and Number 2, 1949, by Jackson Pollock. During the week, visitors strolling outside the Stone Hill Center can peer in at conservators wielding long, dangling hoses and other mysterious tools of their trade behind the two-story glass walls on the north and east facades. (Boston Globe)
Art and The American Civil War Sep 21, 2009
The clear skies and smoothly rolling fields and hills of Hope s Wasted Gallantry are also artistically fascinating and even seem to lead the way in style toward 20th century American Regionalists like John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. Nicola Marschall. (Suite101.com)
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The ranks of former squires include President Harry Truman, artist Thomas Hart Benton, Negro League baseball player Buck O'Neil and News Tribune publisher Betty G. Weldon. Squires must pay 50 per year. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Need to Defend Washington Preservation Inc. Aug 8, 2009
All free, with activities and handouts, we will have such guests as Osage Indians, William Clark, Daniel Boone, Charlotte Kohmueller, James Owens, Thomas Hart Benton, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Gen. Pershing, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln for the students to meet, talk to and hopefully come away inspired by. Wynn Scheer from the Washington School District has put a tremendous amount of work into helping me organize this event. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Chautauqua Weekend Jul 19, 2009
Doug Mishler portrayed Thomas Hart Benton proclaiming himself "the world's greatest artist" Friday night ... - Teresa Ressel / Daily Journal Doug Mishler portrayed Thomas Hart Benton proclaiming himself the world s greatest artist Friday night. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Thomas Hart Benton unsugarcoated takes Chautauqua stage (20) Jul 19, 2009
Thomas Hart Benton unsugarcoated takes Chautauqua stage - Daily Journal Online News ... News Featured Sections Thomas Hart Benton unsugarcoated takes Chautauqua stage ... (0) Thomas Hart Benton unsugarcoated takes Chautauqua stage Controversial Missouri artist tells his view on art and life By TERESA RESSELDaily Journal Staff Writer Saturday, July 18, 2009. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Josephine Baker opens Big River Chautauqua Jul 12, 2009
This year s schedule includes Vernice Jackson as Josephine Baker on Thursday night, Doug Mishler as Thomas Hart Benton on Friday night and William Worley as Walt Disney on Saturday night. The idea behind the Chautauqua is to bring history to life in an entertaining and unusual way. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Famous Missourians coming to Bonne Terre Jun 17, 2009
Doug Mishler as Thomas Hart Benton (left), Vernice Jackson as Josephine Baker (middle) and Bill Worley as Walt Disney (right) ... Characters include Thomas Hart Benton, Josephine Baker, Walt DisneyBy SHERRY GREMINGERDaily Journal Managing EditorEveryone knows and loves Walt Disney ... Most people recognize the name Thomas Hart Benton. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
JCHS honors class of 2009 May 25, 2009
Jefferson City High School's Class of 2009 should be like Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton, first lady Georganne Wheeler Nixon said Friday night. "Like those pioneers" in his paintings, she said, "each of us has a role to accept the challenges of today and to improve our communities for tomorrow.". (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
BOOK REVIEW: 'American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House' May 5, 2009
In a melee involving guns and knives with Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton Benton, Jackson nearly lost an arm. This frontier firefight did not carry on to Washington because Tom Benton, as a U.S. senator, became a friend and political ally. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
The Artist as a Kept Man Mar 25, 2009
New York senator Herbert Lehman, in arguing for art subsidies in the 1950s, looked out over the land of Chuck Berry, Thomas Hart Benton, and Eudora Welty and saw an aesthetic dust bowl whose aridity contrasted with Manhattan s vibrant culture of Tin Pan Alley, Time magazine, and Ethel Merman. Impose MOMA on Oklahoma. (The American Conservative)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
De Kooning was more explicit in his evocation of landscape, often making clear reference to it in his titles; Pollock studied under Thomas Hart Benton, whose fluid, elongated paintings on rural themes were subtly echoed in the internal structure of Pollock's later works. So a painting like Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm," which looks at first glance like an arbitrary swirl of drips and splashes, can start to feel more like a panoramic tribute to the expansive - and vertiginous - space of Pollock's... (Boston Globe)
Recession imperils nation's artifacts Feb 15, 2009
The State Historical Society of Missouri has backed away from an aggressive plan to buy paintings of famous Missouri artists Thomas Hart Benton and George Caleb Bingham. Now it risks losing the artwork to other buyers. (Boston Globe)
