Thomas Hart Benton Home

KCUR 89.3 FM: A guide to the home and studio of Thomas Hart Benton, Kansas City's most prolific painter

At the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio in Kansas City's Roanoke neighborhood, see where the prolific painter lived and created some of his most famous works. A hidden gem of Kansas City's historic ...

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A guide to the home and studio of Thomas Hart Benton, Kansas City's most prolific painter

ORLEANS – Thomas Hart Benton, Sr. passed away suddenly at his home in East Orleans on . Tom was born on , in New York, NY, the youngest of five children born to Philip ...

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Southeast Missourian: K.C. home of artist Thomas Hart Benton often overlooked by visitors

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Nearly 23 years after opening to great fanfare as a state museum, the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio is a lonely place. "It's kind of sad," said Jerry Rardin, the home's ...

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When artist Thomas Hart Benton returned to his home state in 1935, his name was almost synonymous with Missouri. Benton had risen to prominence as an American regionalist artist in the 1930s, landing ...

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 ...

Columbia Missourian: Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio: A glimpse into the famous artist's world

Thomas Hart Benton was one of the most well-known artists in the country for decades. Today, visitors can tour the home studio that he converted from a carriage house on his property in the Roanoke ...