News & Publications Featuring
Thomas Hart Benton

Exploring Country’s Roots Before the Mcdowell County Roundup
By Mike Conley for The McDowell News
Discover historic places in Nashville including, The Country Music Hall of Fame where Thomas Hart Benton’s colorful mural, The Sources of Country Music, can be found in the middle of the rotunda.

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.

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.

Vmfa’s Original Exhibition Storied Strings: the Guitar in American Art Opens October 8th
By Trevor Dickerson for RVAHUB
Explore the symbolism of the guitar in American art in an upcoming exhibition featuring 125 artworks including, Thomas Hart Benton’s work of art, Jessie with Guitar, 1957.

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.

Vmfa Adds Diverse Selection of Over 1,200 New Works Into Its Permanent Collection
By Trevor Dickerson for RVAHub
VMFA adds more to its art collection, hosts a first ever exhibition to explore the guitar in American Art, as in Thomas Hart Benton’s Jessie with Guitar, 1957.

Thomas Hart Benton Documents the 1937 Flood in the Bootheel
By Bill Eddleman for KRCU Public Radio
Discover Thomas Hart Benton’s depiction of the flood that struck Missouri Bootheel in 1937, and his portrayal of human misery that comes with the calamity through his artworks.

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.

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.

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
Cynthia and Heywood Fralin’s treasure acquisition of American art by American artists featured in an exhibition at the Taubman Museum of Art. Their collection, Frontier, includes works of art by Thomas Hart Benton, a pioneer of American regionalism.

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.

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.

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.

New Exhibition at Springfield Art Museum Investigates ‘spark’ That Begins a Connection
By Jeff Kessinger for the Springfield Daily Citizen
Newest exhibition at the Springfield Art Museum, Humanities, Vol. 1, featuring works of art by Thomas Hart Benton in the collection.

Springfield Art Museum Mounts New Exhibition Series Beginning With Humanities, Vol. 1
For Springfield Art Museum
Special Exhibition features 49 artworks from the Springfield Art Museum’s permanent collection, by artists including Thomas Hart Benton.

Five Leonard Pryor Paintings Gifted to the Nelson-atkins Museum of Art
For Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Leonard Pryor, Thomas Hart Benton’s fellow Kansas City Art Institute artist, has had 5 of his paintings gifted to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by his two heirs. He was known to have worked with Benton at his studio.

Unseen: the Process and Art of American Printmaking
For Canton Museum of Art
Thomas Hart Benton, and other American artists’ creative journey on printmaking through the years.


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.

Penn’s Ross Gallery Presents From Studio to Doorstep: Associated American Artists Prints 1934 – 2000
By Pamela J. Forsythe for Broad Street Review
Artworks by promising and great artists like Thomas Hart Benton made accessible to everyone.