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Thomas Hart Benton

Visual Arts Counter-View: Celebrating the Art of Thomas Hart Benton

Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.

By: Charles Giuliano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: American Art, Charles Giuliano, didacticism, hollywood, Peabody Essex Museum, Poker Night, Thomas Hart Benton

Visual Arts: The Art of Thomas Hart Benton — Patriotic Correctness

Benton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: American Art, hollywood, patriotic, Peabody Essex Museum, Thomas Hart Benton

Visual Arts Feature: Me and Philip Guston

Our discussions always took the same turn. Philip Guston attempted to convince me that artists like Piero della Francesca and the cave painters of Lascaux were in the first place abstractionists.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: abstract expressionism, American, Charles Pollock, Jackson-pollock, Museum of Modern Art, Philip Guston, Schwartzlist, Thomas Hart Benton

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