Thomas Hart Benton: A Life

By the mid-1930s, Thomas Hart Benton’s heroic murals were featured in galleries, statehouses, public buildings and museums, and magazines commissioned him to report on the stories of the day.

Yet he was often scorned by critics, many of whom—including former student Jackson Pollock—found him too nationalistic and his art too regressive. Justin Wolff illuminates this influential, controversial and often misunderstood man.