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ID: 500005998
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005998
 
Record Type: Person
Benton, Thomas Hart (American painter, illustrator, and lithographer, 1889-1975)

Note: Benton was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Académie Julian in Paris. While in Paris he met artists such as Diego Rivera and Stanford Macdonald-Wright, who influenced his sensibilities. Benton moved to New York City ca. 1912 where he began exhibiting his works (then reminiscent of Synchromism), and fell under the influence of Marxism. In the early 1920s, his work began exploring American narrative themes utilizing highly stylized figurations and backgrounds. By the 30s, Benton was considered a Regionalist, and had been commissioned to paint the first of many murals, which spawned controversy because of their politics. Benton left New York City in 1935 and continued to paint socially conscious murals until the 1960s. American artist, born Mo. Comment on works: religious, allegory, genre
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Names:
Benton, Thomas Hart (preferred,V,index,LCO,English-P,NA,U)
Benton, Thomas Hart (Dutch-P,NA)
Thomas Hart Benton (V,display)
Benton, Tom (V)
בנטון, תומס הארט (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Benton (LU,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
muralist
illustrator
printmaker
engraver (printmaker)
lithographer
sculptor
theatrical painter
designer
grisaillist
draftsman
cartoonist
lecturer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Neosho (Newton county, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Kansas City (Jackson county, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Kansas City (Jackson county, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   Sainte Genevieve (Sainte Genevieve county, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
associate of ....  Angarola, Anthony  
......................  (American painter, 1893-1929) [500068478]
associate of ....  Braught, Ross Eugene  
......................  (American painter, born 1898) [500087177]
associate of ....  Carstenson, Blanche Emily  
......................  (American artist, 1907-2002) [500778715]
associate of ....  Carstenson, Cecil C.  
......................  (American artist, 1906-1991) [500778716]
associate of ....  Cowherd, Lucille  
......................  (American painter, 1885-1975) [500779023]
associate of ....  Curry, John Steuart  
......................  (American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1897-1946) [500115503]
associate of ....  De Martelly, John Stockton  
......................  (American printmaker, 1903-1979) [500331451]
associate of ....  Guy, Ethel B.  
......................  (American artist, 1883-1983) [500778923]
associate of ....  Hammond, Mildred Welsh  
......................  (American artist, 1897-1966) [500778777]
associate of ....  Hoelzel, Elise Emelia  
......................  (American artist, 1897-1976) [500778685]
associate of ....  James, Frederic  
......................  (American painter, 1915-1985) [500705148]
associate of ....  Kann, Frederick  
......................  (American artist, 1884-1965) [500778843]
associate of ....  Ketcham, Austin  
......................  (American artist, 1898-1963) [500778791]
associate of ....  Macdonald-Wright, Stanton  
......................  (American painter, muralist, and aesthetician, 1890-1973) [500007154]
associate of ....  Makimson, Loraine  
......................  (American artist, 1898-1947) [500778941]
associate of ....  Marie, Sister Cassiana  
......................  (American artist, 1883-1944) [500778759]
associate of ....  Mayes, Robert  
......................  (American artist, 1913-2003) [500778917]
associate of ....  Parks, James Dallas  
......................  (American artist, 1907-1983) [500778924]
associate of ....  Rickly, Jesse Beard  
......................  (American artist, 1895-1975) [500778939]
associate of ....  Rosenbauer, William Wallace  
......................  (American artist, 1900-1968) [500778706]
associate of ....  Shane, Frederick Emanuel  
......................  (American painter, born 1906-1992) [500094898]
associate of ....  Stilwell, Wilber Moore  
......................  (American artist, 1908-1974) [500778891]
associate of ....  Wood, Grant  
......................  (American painter and printmaker, 1891-1942) [500031056]
fellow student of ....  Calder, Alexander  Art Students League
..............................  (American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976) [500007824]
teacher of ....  Anderson, Lewis  
..................  (American artist, 1897-1969) [500778691]
teacher of ....  Bailey, Walter Alexander  
..................  (American artist, 1894-1989) [500778694]
teacher of ....  Baumgardt, Paul Edward  
..................  (American artist, 1909-1992) [500778695]
teacher of ....  Bransby, Eric James  
..................  (American artist, 1916-2020) [500778702]
teacher of ....  Bransby, Mary Ann  
..................  (American artist, 1920-2011) [500778703]
teacher of ....  Edie, Stuart Carson  
..................  (American painter, 1908-1974) [500029022]
teacher of ....  Feeley, Paul Terence  
..................  (American painter, sculptor, and draftsman, 1910-1966) [500001039]
teacher of ....  Gantt, Hattie Naomi  
..................  (American artist, 1910-2006) [500778920]
teacher of ....  Gantt, James Britton  
..................  (American artist, 1911-1984) [500778921]
teacher of ....  Goodman, Bertram  
..................  (American painter and engraver, 1904-1988) [500053864]
teacher of ....  Graham, Robert MacDonald  
..................  (American artist, 1919-2000) [500778907]
teacher of ....  Kushner, Dorothy Browdy  
..................  (American artist, 1909-2000) [500778788]
teacher of ....  Laning, Edward  
..................  (American painter, printmaker, and muralist, 1906-1981) [500012487]
teacher of ....  Laning, Mary Fife  
..................  (American artist, 1900-1990) [500778745]
teacher of ....  McCrady, John  
..................  (American painter, muralist, and author, 1911-1968) [500125590]
teacher of ....  McKim, William Wind  
..................  (American artist, 1916-1995) [500778750]
teacher of ....  Meert, Joseph  
..................  (American painter, 1905-1990) [500765706]
teacher of ....  Nesbitt, Jackson Lee  
..................  (American artist, 1913-2008) [500778872]
teacher of ....  Ohrazda, Mary Zink  
..................  (American artist, 1904-1987) [500778905]
teacher of ....  Palmer, William Charles  1924-1926
..................  (American painter, 1906-1987) [500017363]
teacher of ....  Peck, Verna Johnston  
..................  (American artist, 1889-1971) [500778845]
teacher of ....  Peet, Margot  
..................  (American artist, 1903-1995) [500778679]
teacher of ....  Pollock, Jackson  
..................  (American painter, 1912-1956) [500015134]
teacher of ....  Porter, Fairfield  
..................  (American painter and lithographer, 1907-1975) [500032358]
teacher of ....  Pryor, Leonard  
..................  (American artist, 1924-2015) [500778744]
teacher of ....  Pyle, Eugene J.  
..................  (American artist, 1914-1981) [500778731]
teacher of ....  Sapp, Kitt George  
..................  (American artist, 1887-1959) [500778937]
teacher of ....  Shaw, Charles Green  
..................  (American painter, photographer, author, 1892-1974) [500025487]
teacher of ....  Stilwell, Gladys Ferree  
..................  (American artist, 1910-2003) [500778925]
teacher of ....  Tolegian, Manuel Jerair  
..................  (American painter and muralist, 1911-1983) [500041108]
teacher of ....  Turner, Janet E.  
..................  (American artist, 1914-1988) [500487701]
teacher of ....  Vorst, Joseph Paul  
..................  (German and American painter, muralist, and lithographer, 1897-1947) [500336282]
teacher of ....  Wise, Vera  
..................  (American artist, 1892-1978) [500778861]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Benton, Thomas Hart (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, illustrator, and lithographer, 1889-1975) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, 1889-1975) ..... [BHA]
(American, 1889-1975) ..... [GRLPA]
(American painter, 1889-1975) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1889-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, 1889-1975) ..... [WCI]
(Engraver, 1889-1975) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1889-1975) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American artist, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]
(American painter, 1889-1975) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1889-1975) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1889-1975) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1889-1975) ..... [MoMA]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(American painter, 1889-1975) ..... [IMJ]
(American sculptor, 1889-1975) ..... [RKD]
(American artist, 1889-1975) ..... [Morem]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
בנטון, תומס הארט ........ [IMJ]
..............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Benton ........ [PROV]
...............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Benton, Thomas Hart ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, Morem Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.......................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.......................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
.......................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
.......................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.......................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
.......................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
.......................................  Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 79055187
.......................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 79055187 accessed 21 April 2005
.......................................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
.......................................  Missouri Remembers (2021-)
.......................................  NAMA data (2021-) https://missouriartists.org/
.......................................  Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 48
.......................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 6658
.......................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Benton, Tom ........ [GRL, VP]
........................  Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 79055187
........................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 21 April 2005
Thomas Hart Benton ........ [GRISC, MoMA, Morem, PROV, VP]
.....................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.....................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
.....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.....................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
.....................................  Missouri Remembers (2021-)
.....................................  NAMA data (2021-) https://missouriartists.org/
.....................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, Morem, PROV, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Adams and Goheen, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original (1989)
....................  Baigell, An Artist in America (1983)
....................  Benezit. Dictionary of artists, 2006
....................  Benton, An Artist in America (1937)
....................  Benton, Thomas Hart, Oxford Art Online (2022)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Doss, Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism (1991)
....................  Falk, et al., Who was Who (1999)
....................  Fielding, American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (1974)
....................  Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers (1987)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79055187
....................  Gerdts, Art Across America (1990)
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Hurt and Dains, Thomas Hart Benton: Artist, Writer and Intellectual (1989)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index (2002)
....................  KCAI, Midwestern Artists' Exhibition (1920-1942)
....................  Kerr and Dick. An American Art Colony (2004)
....................  Kroiz, Cultivating Citizens (2018)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) LOC ID: n79055187
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) NAFL7999084; accessed 21 April 2005; n 79055187 accessed 21 April 2005
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Missouri Remembers (2021-)
....................  NY Times obit. 21 Jan 1975
....................  Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 48
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 6658
....................  SLPL, St. Louis Art History Project (1989)
....................  Thomas Hart Benton (2000-)
....................  Thomas Hart Benton, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (n.d.)
....................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q471764
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 21 April 2005
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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