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Tough-talking, little (5 ft. 4 in.) Missouri-born Thomas Hart Benton, most swaggeringly masculine of U.S. painters, blew into Manhattan last week and let go a he-man bellow at art in the big city. Said he to a reporter from...
...Benton, who does know how to drink-and who once exhibited a $12,000 saloon nude in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe-set his own ambition: "All you can do is express your own locality, and, if you can do that well, your art will become universal...
Their title-clinching game with the De troit Lions was a fair sample of how the air-minded Rams operate. The play-for-pay boys scarcely had their hair mussed when Waterfield passed to veteran end Jim Benton for 57 yards. For the rest of the afternoon Waterfield kept on pitching to Benton. When it was over, Benton had caught ten Waterfield heaves for 303 yards, a league record. Score: Cleveland 28, Detroit...
...Schlesinger resuscitates the men around Jackson, some of them members of his official family, some of them members of the unofficial "Kitchen Cabinet" which sometimes played a more effective role in governing the country than the cabinet officers. Many of these men have been forgotten. There was Thomas Hart Benton ("He had a giant conviction that he and the people were one. 'Nobody opposes Benton,' he would roar, pronouncing it 'Bane-ton,' 'but a few blackjack prairie lawyers; these are the only opponents of Benton. Benton and the people are one and the same...
Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's swashbuckling little painter of lopsided Americana, arrived in Manhattan. Starting with Greenwich Village, he planned to paint outsize canvases of the skyscraper metropolis...