| Style | Regionalism |
| Lived | April 15, 1889 - January 19, 1975 ( 20th century ) |
| Nationality | USA |
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Thomas Benton Biography |
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Some of Thomas Benton's most famous works include 'Persephone', 'Threshing Wheat', 'Prodigal Son', 'Boy Fishing' and his mural 'A Dream Fulfilled'.
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| Quote | “Modern French painting is all right; it has produced many beautiful and interesting things, fully worthy of admiration, but it has also set up response habits among our artistic authorities which have worked against a free approach to other artistic forms.”
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Perhaps the most famous work by Thomas Benton are his Indiana Murals ('A Dream Fulfilled'): decoration of the Indiana Hall at the "Century of Progress" exposition at the Chicago World's Fair. This mural depicted the Social and Industrial History of Indiana. These murals, which were very confronting, received very diverse comments.
Thomas Benton's opinion on museums: "...the average museum was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait. ... Do you want to know what's the matter with the art business in America? It's the third sex and the museums. Even in Missouri we're full of 'em. Our museums are full of ballet dancers, retired businessmen and boys from the Fogg Institute at Harvard where they train museum directors and art artists. I'd have people buy the paintings and hang them in privies or anywhere anybody had time to look at 'em. Nobody looks at 'em in museums. Nobody goes to museums. I'd like to sell mine to saloons, bawdy houses, Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs and Chambers of Commerce—even women's clubs." Afterwards he followed up on this quote as he borrowed one if his paintings to a saloon owner who told him "You've got the painting; I've got the saloon".
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