
Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time , he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father's...

" An] energetic and revelatory biography." --Donna Seaman, The Kansas City Star Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time ,...