Word: benton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anchors. Kurtz is a pal of Missouri's Artist Thomas Hart Benton (who plays the harmonica in chamber music sessions with Kurtz). Kurtz, likewise an amateur in Benton's field, paints watercolors...
Each member nation will be represented at Paris by five delegates, who will vote as a unit. For its team the U.S. had picked a team of first-stringers, headed by William Benton, Assistant Secretary of State.* Behind them is a 90-man U.S. commission of educators, scientists and cultural leaders who help map out strategy...
...night after the 1944 national conventions, he opened his lofty, cavernous Manhattan studio to a crowd of fourscore friends who shared his sympathies. The result was an Independent Voters' Committee of the Arts & Sciences for Roosevelt, the forerunner of ICCASP. The founders, among them Helen Keller, Thomas Benton, Ethel Barrymore, Van Wyck Brooks, Quentin Reynolds, excitedly made Davidson chairman-largely because he had let his studio be used for the first meeting...
Died. John Steuart Curry, 48, lusty realistic painter of harvests, storms, Big Top performers and legendary heroes, whose most praised picture, the John Brown mural in Topeka, Kans., he never signed; best of the famed Midwestern triumvirate which included Artists Thomas Benton and the late Grant Wood; of a heart attack; in Madison...
Thomas Hart Benton had words with himself. One of ten artists commissioned by a department-store chain to do some paintings, he walked out because he disapproved of some of the painters. Men he approved had been dropped, complained Benton, and "slick-paper names like my own were put in their place...