Episode 83: Thomas Hart Benton, Ozarks Artist and Renegade of Folk

In this episode, the Chronicles celebrate the truly impressive Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's most famous artist! Curtis and Hayden survey Benton's boyhood in the Ozarks; his education as a young man in Paris, Kansas City, and New York; and his success as a mature artist to create a picture of a true Renegade of Folk. Friend to both Vance Randolph and Rose O'Neill, Benton joined them in their love of the people and landscape of the Ozarks, and he rendered this love in his art. Still regarded as one of the most influential "Regionalists" of the first half of the 20th century, Benton lives on in the color, vivacity, and power of his paintings and murals. Join the Chronicles in celebrating a our own Ozarks Renegade of Folk!

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