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Personal Treasures: After Decades of Collecting Art, Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Share Paintings in an Exhibit at the Taubman Museum of Art
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Personal Treasures: After Decades of Collecting Art, Cynthia and Heywood Fralin Share Paintings in an Exhibit at the Taubman Museum of Art

By Julia Mouketo for The Roanoke Times

Explore philanthropists, Heywood and Cynthia Fralin’s growing art collection featured in an exhibition, Treasures of American Art at the Taubman Museum of Art. The Frontier category includes works of art by Thomas Hart Benton, a pioneer of American regionalism.

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The Flower Box City Blooms Again
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The Flower Box City Blooms Again

By Susan Atteberry Smith for Missouri Life

Business owners contribute Neosho, Thomas Hart Benton’s hometown, continued cultivation for both locals and tourists looking for day-trip destinations.

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About Joplin, Missouri
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About Joplin, Missouri

For Visit Joplin MO

Explore Joplin, Missouri, a cultural destination where innovation can be inspired from various art forms including, trademarks from legends like artist, Thomas Hart Benton.

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Thomas Hart Benton Documents the 1937 Flood in the Bootheel
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Thomas Hart Benton Documents the 1937 Flood in the Bootheel

For KRCU Public Radio

The Missouri Bootheel was devastated by a flood in 1937. The Ohio Valley experienced significant rainfall beginning in late December 1936. By January 5, the Ohio River had risen, and by mid-January, flood warnings had been issued. The Ohio overflowed its banks, flooding riverbank communities all the way to its mouth at Cairo, Illinois. People were evicted from their homes in the Bootheel because unprotected land started flooding.

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The Artist’s Eye
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The Artist’s Eye

By Elizabeth Hawes for Martha’s Vineyard

Honoring Stan Murphy’s life’s work and his time in the Vineyard, including his memories with long time friend, Thomas Hart Benton.

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Jackson Pollock’s Wyoming Links
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Jackson Pollock’s Wyoming Links

By John Clayton for WyoHistory.org

Jackson Pollock, Thomas Hart Benton’s student in the Art Students League in New York, and his Wyoming connections.

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History of Lincoln Square, 1700 – 2000
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History of Lincoln Square, 1700 – 2000

By Neil Kittredge for the Lincoln Square Bid

How Lincoln Square flourished in becoming the center for culture and arts from 1700 to 2000, which attracted generational artists like Thomas Hart Benton to set up a studio base in the area.

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Storied Strings: the Guitar in American Art
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Storied Strings: the Guitar in American Art

For the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Explore the instrument’s symbolism in American art from 1957 painting, Jessie with Guitar by Thomas Hart Benton, in an exhibition first of its kind at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Route 66
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Route 66

By Christine Smith for Visit Joplin MO

Explore attractions along Route 66, Joplin and Thomas Hart Benton’s depiction of the area during the height of the Mother Road era with his work of art, Route 66, Joplin Missouri, found in the lobby of Newman Building.

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Main Street Missouri
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Main Street Missouri

By Elizabeth Hey for The Travel Group Leader

Missouri and its huge cultural impact on America. From Thomas Hart Benton’s last signed mural in Joplin, to his Independence and the Opening of the West mural found in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum.

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