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Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), Spring on the Missouri, 1945, American. Oil on masonite. 76.7 x 102.2 cm. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (http://ncartmuseum.org); purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina; © T. H. Benton and R. P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

As Missourians are fond of reminding their visitors, the painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) is only one of a cadre of eminent Missouri residents: Twain, Eliot, Field, Pershing, Bradley, Carver. Moreover, through his grandfather, who served 30 years as a US Senator from Missouri (its first), and his father, who served four terms in the House as a representative from Missouri, young Benton had a connection to American history and politics that began with Monroe and extended to Theodore Roosevelt. Benton's boyhood and early teens were divided between the rural setting of his native Neosho, Missouri, . . . [Full Text of this Article]