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Gifted, vigorous U. S. artists did not begin to climb scaffolding until painters like Sloan, Luks and Bellows had found big subjects in local streets, parks, barrooms, and until the generation of Curry, Wood and Benton had done likewise in the farm and cattle country. The possibility of integrating this material in wall designs was driven home by Mexico's two great muralists, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Missouri's Benton completed his first murals in Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931) and a movement of great and wild...
...community as exists in the U. S., was limited to five canvases, one sculpture, while Florida, as arid artistically as it is fruitful agriculturally was allowed eight paintings, one sculpture. Beyond that the most startling fact to Manhattanites was that neither John Steuart Curry of Kansas, Thomas Benton of Missouri or Grant Wood of Iowa wa represented...
Miss F. M. Adams, Mrs. Jay R. Benton, Mrs. Thomas H. Bilodeau, Mrs. John Bowen, Mrs. W. H. Butler, Mrs. Howard T. Case, Mrs. Wilson D. Clark Jr., Mrs. Martin Evers, Mrs. James H. Flood, Mrs. Robert W. Palmer, Mrs. Richard V. Pedrick, Mrs. C. R. Porter, Mrs. Stanley B. Purdy, Mrs. C. O. Richardson, Mrs. Herbert Rogers, Mrs. M. L. Rogers, Mrs. Harry W. Russell, Mrs. Hollis L. Seavey, Mrs. Walter H. Sides, Mrs. S. G. Sleeper, Mrs. C. N. Smith, Mrs. Thomas K. Snyder, Mrs. Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Mrs. A. A. Thayer, Mrs. Richard M. Walsh...
...Russell Allen '38, William S. Baxter '37, John H. Benton '37, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, John F. Bowen '39, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, Robert C. Downes '38, Leo A. Ecker '37, Edward T. Gignoux '37, Hunt S. Gruening '38, Joseph P. Kennedy '38, Arthur Oakes, 3rd, '38, Leslie R. Porter, Jr. '39, Robert E. Purdy '37, Charles O. Richardson '37, Mason T. Rogers, Jr. '37, John B. Stevens '38, Robert C. Stuart '38, Lorrin E. Woodman...
...Chicago's Century of Progress Exhibition, the State of Indiana commissioned him to do a gigantic panorama which was one of the outstanding hits of the Fair, now lies in a warehouse waiting a permanent home. Missourians suddenly remembered that Tom Benton was a native son, urged him to come home and do a job of work for the State House. Artist Benton agreed to decorate the Representatives' Lounge...