Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) USA, Lithograph. Titled "Slow Train Through Arkansas". Signed on lower left and right. Limited edition lithograph of a train stopped on railroad because of cows. Male figure trying to shoo cows off the rails. Snip it of artist on back. Overall Size: 16 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. Sight Size: 11 x 13 3/4 in. Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. Named a "child of controversy," Thomas Benton has had the most dramatic and interesting career in American art. Painter, muralist, anthro- pologist and lithographer, Benton turns the pages of history into powerful pictorial drama. Born in Neosho on the edge of the Missouri Ozarks, in 1889, he began his art training at sixteen at the Art Institute of Chicago. At nineteen he decamped for the Latin Quarter in Paris, but returned to work in America, completed the murals of the History of Missouri in the State Capitol at Jefferson City, is permanently represented with works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New School for Social Research, and a mural History of Indiana. Benton recently published his autobiography, "An Artist in America," held an exhibition of paintings in our galleries which drew 43,000 visitors in four weeks. Today he is a part of the American scene; headed the painting department of the Kansas City Art Institute; is responsible by his leadership and teaching for the development of a truly -gional American art in Missouri. #1416 Location Photo Area