Oral history interview with Thomas Hart Benton, 1972
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Thomas Hart Benton, 1972
Abstract
Family background, reputation in Missouri; father's political career; trip to Joplin, early cartoonist job; Washington D.C. at turn of century; years in Paris, art movement, cafe life; populism, political and artistic; Bohemian art; capitalism and art; film work in New Jersey; effects of Armory Show; World War I naval experiences; Missouri mural; art criticism; walking tours of the South; Orozco; s culptural painting; executing a mural; New York Marxist groups, 1930s; New School mural; WPA lecture tour; homosexual influence on art world; social function of art; Joplin mural; work for Walt Disney; regionalist movement; representational artists and the War
Artists--United States; Mural painting and decoration, American--20th century; Art, American; Cartooning; Art and state; Paris (France) Intellectual life; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975; United States. Works Progress Administration
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1972
Physical Description
185 pages
Note (Biographical)
Artist
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Biographical interview.
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit