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People From Newton County, Missouri: Thomas Hart Benton, Clark Griffith, Paul Miller, David Edwards, Tom Brumley, Allen Barbre, Scott Ferri
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-06-05.
ISBN 9781157688402
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Thomas Hart Benton, Clark Griffith, Paul Miller, David Edwards, Tom Brumley, Allen Barbre, Scott Ferris, Eiken Elam Saimon, Thomas Daugherty. Excerpt: Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States. Though his work is perhaps best associated with the Midwest, he created scores of paintings of New York - where he lived for over 20 years, Marthas Vineyard - where he summered for much of his adult life, the American South and the American West. In 1907 Benton enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, but left for Paris in 1909 to continue his art education at the Académie Julian. In Paris, Benton met other North American artists such as Diego Rivera and Stanton Macdonald-Wright, an advocate of Synchromism. Wright's influence gave a strong Synchromist leaning to Benton's work. Benton returned to New York City in 1913 and resumed painting. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, where he engaged in war-related work that had an enduring effect on his style. Initially, he was expected to make drawings of shipyard work and life in a documentary manner, a direction that influenced him for the rest of his life. Later in the war, classified as a camoufleur, he was assigned (as was the artist Louis Bouche) to making drawings of camouflaged ships that came into the harbor. This was done for several reasons: to make certain that U.S. ship painters were correctly applying the camouflage schemes that they had been provided with, to aid in identifying the remains of U.S. ships tha... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=271903
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