Thomas Hart Benton
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Sep 28, 2026
Nate WilcoxHOST
They, they, they start out with a, with, I think a pretty good starting point.
Nate WilcoxHOST
There's a, there's a painting by Thomas Hart Benton, The Sources of Country Music, that I think she said Kathy Mattea, uh, said that was his last painting, and it's there at the Country Music Hall of Fame, where Kathy Mattea was a docent and, and gave tours and stuff, so she's got some perspective.
Nate WilcoxHOST
And I was kind of fond of this 'cause Thomas Hart Benton painted a painting about my hometown, an oil boom town, so, uh, I feel kinda close to Thomas Hart Benton.
Nate WilcoxHOST
But, you know, it's a painting-
James PorterGUEST
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Gabby HazeHOST
In the video there, they had him standing in front of one spot, a lot of snapshots, Thomas Hart Benton mural.
Gabby HazeHOST
And you can spot a Thomas Hart Benton mural, not that I'm any great artist, expert, but he's one that I think is fantastic.
Gabby HazeHOST
He's from Kansas City.
Gabby HazeHOST
He lived at Thomas Hart Benton.
Gabby HazeHOST
He lived on Benton Boulevard, duh.
Gabby HazeHOST
And there was a fellow in his...
Leigh RobbHOST
And it's important to think about scale and what they could do at scale and also how in turn that will have a big impact on what becomes a New York school or abstract expressionism.
Leigh RobbHOST
But it's an interesting time in terms of American art and if we think about abstract expressionism as maybe the first major American modern art movement because at the time there was that big shift from symbolic realism and artists that had come from all over the country, including someone like Jackson Pollock who came from Wyoming and ended up studying at the Artist Students League under a man named an important artist called Thomas Hart Benton.
Leigh RobbHOST
But what else was happening in New York in the mid-1930s, late 1920s or through the 30s? MoMA also opened in 1929 on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
Leigh RobbHOST
And what was really important was that it was free.
Tim Conway Jr.HOST
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SethGUEST
By artists, we have an exhibition dedicated to Norman Rockwell, Jesse Wilcox Smith, Thomas Hart Benton, and more.
SethGUEST
And then also by genre of fantasy, adventure, comics.
SethGUEST
And in addition to that, we've got our research library that's just behind us.
Dan GelernterHOST
I really don't know what they're going to do once they reopen the gallery.
Dan GelernterHOST
There is one other impressive installation here, which is an industrial mural by Tom Benton.
Dan GelernterHOST
Tom Benton is well-known today primarily because he was the teacher of Jackson Pollock.
Dan GelernterHOST
He himself was a painter of... rather like Pollock, a very minimal drawing talent.
Dan GelernterHOST
The difference is that Benton also had very little color sense and not very much imagination.