Skip to main content
• With Kansan John Steuart Curry and Iowan Grant Wood, Benton became a leading proponent of American Regionalism--celebrated during the 1930s and 1940s for his depictions of everyday life in rural America.
• The artist taught painting at the Art Students League of New York and the Kansas City Art Institute. His most famous student was Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.
• Benton painted murals in the Missouri State Capitol and the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri.
Thomas Hart Benton
United States, 1889 - 1975
Place of BirthNeosho, Missouri
Place of DeathKansas City, Missouri
Biography• Benton was named for his great uncle, Thomas Hart Benton, one of the first two US Senators elected from Missouri.• With Kansan John Steuart Curry and Iowan Grant Wood, Benton became a leading proponent of American Regionalism--celebrated during the 1930s and 1940s for his depictions of everyday life in rural America.
• The artist taught painting at the Art Students League of New York and the Kansas City Art Institute. His most famous student was Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.
• Benton painted murals in the Missouri State Capitol and the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri.
United States, born Russia, 1905 - 1979
United States, 1904 - 1972
