Oral history interview with Thomas Hart Benton
Creators:
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
Cummings, Paul
Cummings, Paul
Dates:
1973 July 23-24
Size:
68 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.benton73
Repository:
Archives of American Art
Interview of Thomas Hart Benton conducted 1973 July 23-24, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Benton speaks of his childhood in Missouri and Washington, D.C., working as a newspaper cartoonist, and classes at the Chicago Art Institute (1907-1908) and the Academie Julian in Paris (1908). He discusses the New York art …
