BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A nautically themed painting by Neosho-born Thomas Hart Benton is included in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s current exhibition, “In American Waters: The Sea in American ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- More than 100 pieces of art by the late Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton have been lost from an estate mismanaged by UMB Bank, according to a lawsuit filed in probate ...

Each year, Thomas Hart Benton gave his daughter, Jessie, a painting on her birthday. Most of them thrilled her, capturing elements that corresponded to that year in her life, from the cat that is in ...

An image of a Missouri official using a mural as a writing surface has spread far and wide. By anne marie hankins Thomas Hart Benton was part of the first generation of American artists to let the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter Thomas Hart Benton’s estate by selling his artwork for less than what it was worth and losing ...

FILE - A museum patron looks at "The Engineers's Dream" by Thomas Hart Benton at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ...

"The Sources of Country Music," Benton's last painting. The heirs of famed Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton are suing UMB Bank, claiming it mismanaged his estate, failed to track and maximize the ...

Thomas Hart Benton in his studio next to his home at 3616 Belleview in 1951. File The Kansas City Star Fifty years after Thomas Hart Benton suffered a heart attack and died at age 85 while working in ...

Thomas Hart Benton, born on April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri, was the son of Maecenas Eason Benton, a lawyer and U.S. congressman, and Elizabeth Wise Benton. His upbringing alternated between ...