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	Thomas Hart Benton (senator) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782–April 10, 1858), nicknamed Old Bullion, was an American Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States.
		Benton was an architect and champion of westward expansion by the United States, a cause that became known as Manifest Destiny.
		Benton advocated the annexation of Texas and argued for abrogation of the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty in which the United States relinquished claims to that territory, but he was opposed to the machinations that led to its annexation in 1845 and the Mexican-American War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(senator) (1256 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri into an influential clan of politicians and powerbrokers.
		Benton's father was a lawyer and US congressman; his great-uncle was 19th-century statesman Senator Thomas Hart Benton, after whom he was named.
		Benton taught at the Art Students League, and was active in leftist politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter) (655 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart, U.S. Senator. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Hillsboro, N.C. Benton moved to Tennessee in 1809, was admitted to the bar in 1811, and served (1809–11) in the state senate.
		Benton also supported all legislation that aided settlers and favored the development of the West, including reduction in the price of government lands, suppression of land speculation, westward removal of the Native Americans, and internal improvements.
		Benton had early come to favor the gradual abolition of slavery, and with the ascendancy of the proslavery Democrats he lost influence in the party.
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	Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas studied law with St. George Tucker, entered the United States army in 1810, and was admitted to the bar in Nashville in 1811 under the patronage of Andrew Jackson, at that time a judge of the Supreme Court, and one of his warmest friends.
		Benton took up the matter, addressed himself to a consideration of the whole question of finance, circulating medium, and exchange, and urged the adoption of a gold and silver currency as the true remedy for the existing embarrassments.
		Benton replied that he had no right to expect any such thing, and from this moment the two intellectual giants were matched in a ferocious warfare against each other's ideas and interests.
	www.famousamericans.net /thomashartbenton (2735 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton - Gallery
		The sketch to the left is one of Benton's preliminary sketches for the Culture Panel segment of the Independence and the Opening of the West murals.
		Benton began the Independence Murals in 1959 and completed them in 1962; the distinct contrast between the angularity of his initial figure sketches (see Tom Sawyer illustration above) gives way later in his career to a less stylized, more refined representation of the human form as seen in the Independence Murals.
		Benton draws on this powerful myth to frame an image of the older, dying generation coveting the promise of youth and the new American generation.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~am482_04/am_scene/bentonimages.html (610 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Hart Benton, along with his contemporaries Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry, was one of the key chroniclers and interpreters of American life from the late 1920s through the mid-twentieth century.
		The son of Congressman Colonel Maecenas Eason Benton and Elizabeth Wise of Neosho, Missouri, and the great-nephew and namesake of the celebrated U.S. Senator from Missouri, Benton was born and raised in the rural Ozark town of Neosho.
		Benton destroyed most of the maquettes after use, but of the few to survive is a model for Turn of the Century, Joplin (The Benton Trust), a mural Benton executed in 1971 for the Municipal Building in Joplin, Missouri.
	www.spanierman.com /feature/bio_benton_thomas_hart.htm (1034 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas Hart Benton, born March 14, 1782, in Hillsboro, North Carolina, was one of the most colorful statesmen of the 19th century.
		As a young man, Benton was left in charge of considerable land holdings; he established a law practice and served as a colonel in the War of 1812 under General Andrew Jackson.
		Thomas Hart Benton died of cancer on April 10, 1858.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/Benton.cfm (233 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton
		What captured Benton's interest, he later wrote, was the Synchromists' use of Baroque rhythms, derived not from Cezanne's work, as was the case with most of the Parisian painters who had experimented with such rhythms, but from the more basic source of Michelangelo's sculpture.
		Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism, by Erika Lee Doss.
		Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals, by Kathleen A. Foster.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/B/benton.html (1306 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site - General Information - Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benton was born in Neosho, Mo. in 1889, the son of Missouri Congressman Maecenas E. Benton and grand nephew of Missouri's first senator, Thomas Hart "Old Bullion" Benton.
		Benton spent several years perfecting a new method of planning his paintings by using clay models to help with the spatial organization of the design.
		Benton, renowned painter, sculptor, lecturer and writer, was a man of enormous vitality and inner strength.
	www.mostateparks.com /benton/geninfo.htm (726 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas Hart Benton was born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and moved to Tennessee in 1809.
		Benton moved to Missouri and became a newspaper editor, was active in public affairs and in 1821 was elected as the state’s first Senator.
		Benton was in general a supporter of Andrew Jackson (the two were reconciled) and an opponent of John C. Calhoun.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h274.html (299 words)

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		At any rate, Jackson was shot and Benton was pitched headlong downstairs, and all the other combatants were more or less damaged." While Jackson was carried off for medical attention, Benton seized the General's sword and ceremoniously broke it over his knee.
		Benton was famous for his efforts to establish a liberal system of land distribution that would discourage speculators but enable honest settlers to purchase public lands at low prices.
		From 1820 on, however, Benton repeatedly demanded the treaty be abrogated and a definite boundary be set - if not at the famous 54'40", at least at the 49th parallel.
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	Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas Hart Benton was born on April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri.
		Benton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, resided briefly in Paris and New York City, then settled in Kansas City, working as an instructor of drawing/painting at the Kansas City Art Institute.
		Benton was part of the Regionalist movement and is well known for his mural paintings that depict commmon everyday scenes of Midwestern life.
	monet.unk.edu /mona/contemp/benton/benton.html (169 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton biography
		The leading political advocate of the push west was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, a formidable public orator.
		Benton also saw life in the west as a way that poor farmers and workmen in the East could fulfil their destiny and carve out an exciting new American way of life, completely distanced from any British colonial influence.
		Benton was also in favor of moderation with regard to the dispute with Mexico over the Southwest territory.
	pa.essortment.com /thomashartbent_rben.htm (634 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas Hart Benton, one of the most influential personages of American Regionalism, was born in 1889 in Neosho, MO. He came from a long lineage of well-to-do politicians, and broke the tradition when in 1905 he dropped out of high school to become a cartoonist for the Joplin American.
		From 1906-1907, Benton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1908 he left the U.S. to enroll in the Academie Julien in Paris.
		Until 1911, Benton studied in Paris and forged friendships with ascendant artists such as Diego Rivera, John Marin, Morgan Russell, as well as Stanton MacDonald-Wright, the founder of the Synchronist movement, whose influence is reflected in Benton’s early work.
	www.georgekrevskygallery.com /artists/benton (385 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Originally called Brunson Harbor and a part of St. Joseph, it was renamed for Thomas Hart Benton (a Missouri senator who had supported statehood for Michigan) and was separately incorporated as a village in 1869,...
		Born on March 14, 1782, in Hillsborough, N.C., Thomas Hart Benton was a state senator in Tennessee but moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1815 to become editor of the Missouri Enquirer and to practice law.
		Thomas Hart Benton was an important member of this group.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078671?tocId=9078671&query=thomas (696 words)

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		Benton was a highly intelligent, energetic, flamboyant, pugnacious and hard drinking fellow, who quite often found himself in the center of controversy.
		Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri, and named for a great uncle and early United States Senator.
		His father, Colonel M.E. Benton, was a congressman for eight years, and during the winter, the family lived in Washington D.C. and in Neosho in the summer.
	www.askart.com /artist/B/thomas_hart_benton.asp?ID=8195 (1251 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton
		Country : US Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosha, Missouri, the great-nephew of the American politician and statesman after whom he was named.
		Benton's figure drawing was accessible, often cartoon-like; his compositions were energetic and active; and his colors were rich.
		In 1934, when a Benton portrait was featured on the cover of "Time" magazine, both Benton and his Regionalism started catching the attention of a much larger public.
	www.3d-dali.com /Artist-Biographies/Thomas_Hart_Benton.html (378 words)

	artist america Thomas Hart Benton
		The first installment of this work was published in 1937, but Benton continued his life story in chapters added to editions published in 1951 and 1968.
		Although Benton is most famous as a regionalist painter and muralist, his complex and fascinating career brought him into contact with many of the most important artists and thinkers of the century, including Jackson Pollock, Grant Wood, Julian Huxley, Felix Frankfurter, Eugene Debbs, John Reed, and Harry Truman.
		Critics on the Left were not his only opponents, however, and equally revealing are his responses to the moral condemnations heaped on his murals done for the states of Indiana and Missouri and on his realistic nudes of the late 1930s.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/otherbooks/benton.htm (342 words)

	Arts of Life in America
		Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri, and as a small boy absorbed the life of the western frontier.
		Benton had a fascinating working method, and was a controversial figure in the world of mural art, often in public conflict with others.
		The accompanying 32 page brochure contained an essay by Benton - a rare opportunity to read an artist's thoughts on his work at the time it was made public.
	www.nbmaa.org /Online_Exhibitions/Benton/html/Mainj.html (564 words)

	Independence and the Opening of the West-Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas Hart Benton, an American Regionalist artist, was born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889.
		Benton was treated to an extensive education that involved many travels.
		Benton's great love, however, was the common man and his plight.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /teacher/benton.htm (2481 words)

	thomas hart benton
		Thomas Hart Benton was born on March 14, 1782, in Harts Mill, (near Hillsboro) North Carolina.
		At the outset of the War of 1812, General Jackson appointed Benton his aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
		Benton died in Washington D.C. on April 10, 1858 at the age of 76.
	www.co.benton.wa.us /html/thomas_hart_benton.htm (1025 words)

	Truman Library - Thomas Hart Benton Oral History Interview
		BENTON: I figured out the size of the painting space, how much subject matter would have to be represented, how complicated, that is, the mural would be, what probable research expenses I would face and how much time would be expended.
		BENTON: I don't generally do so, but so many people were interested in the one I made for the Library mural that I did try to have it cast in bronze.
		BENTON: Originally I intended to paint the predelle in the same color scheme as the main part of the mural but as the mural began to reach completion, I thought it better to reduce their color.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/benton.htm (4854 words)

	Scholastic Art: Thomas Hart Benton: American storyteller.@ HighBeam Research
		Young Thomas Hart Benton had created his first mural.
		But Benton kept drawing trains--and soldiers, cowboys, and American Indians--anytime he found a blank piece of paper.
		Thomas Hart Benton wasn't supposed to be an artist.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:123853434&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (179 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton . Benton Profile \| PBS
		Benton then went on to Paris and, finally, to New York, where he persevered as an impoverished painter for more than a decade but found his "regionalist" roots.
		Benton was at war with the Eastern art establishment from the moment he hit his stride as a determinedly realistic painter.
		Benton already was a summer neighbor of theirs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where Tom and Rita spent every summer for 50 years.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/benton/benton (991 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Neosho, Mo.; grandnephew of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton and son of Congressman Maecenas E. Benton.
		Benton taught painting at several colleges and art schools.
		This may look like a Thomas Hart Benton, but the International Foundation for Art Research determined in the early 1980s that it was a fake.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/bentonp1nt.asp (350 words)

	The Art History of Missouri
		In December of 1936, Thomas Hart Benton finished what is possibly his most famous and most seen works ever.
		Over the three doors in the Missouri House of Representatives lounge, Benton illustrated the legend of "Frankie and Johnny." This barroom scene is a memorial to the famed lover's quarrel in the late 1880's in St. Louis that ended in murder.
		Benton was also assisted by Sidney Larson with this project.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Exhibit/5437/THBind.html (1203 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton, by Marianne Berardi
		Once Benton was satisfied that the clay model was the right preparatory tool for achieving a well-resolved composition in his painting, he set out to design modern art on a monumental scale, as mural painting.
		While Benton never confessed the fact, it seems likely that he found a model for his approach in the work of the great Mexican modernists Rivera, Orozco and Siqueros, who began producing their great murals in the early 1920s.
		Although Benton is now chiefly remembered as a "regionalist," this term was developed surprisingly late, at the very end of 1934, after not only Benton, but Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry had already produced much of their most memorable work.
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	Thomas Hart Benton Online
		Thomas Hart Benton in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Thomas Hart Benton at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. "Director's Tour" discussion of Achelous and Hercules
		Thomas Hart Benton copyright requests handled by VAGA.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/benton_thomas_hart.html (435 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart (politics) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Benton, Thomas Hart (politics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Hillsboro (now Hillsborough), North Carolina, Benton moved to Tennessee and became a barrister 1806.
		During the War of 1812, he served as General Andrew Jackson's aide-de-camp, eventually rising to the rank of colonel.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Benton,+Thomas+Hart+(politics) (137 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton murals timeline
		1932 -- Thomas Hart Benton is commissioned to paint the murals to decorate the Indiana Hall at the "Century of Progress" exposition at the Chicago World's Fair.
		Benton signed a contract to paint a continuous mural, 12 feet high and about 250 feet long, depicting the "Social and Industrial History of Indiana."
		1997-98 -- In conjunction with the renovation of the IU Auditorium, the NEA awards IU a conservation grant for restoring the Benton murals there, declaring the Benton mural restoration to be the most important such project in the nation.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/292.html (372 words)

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