Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock: Creating an American Art

When the famed Action Painter Jackson Pollock referred to his former teacher Thomas Hart Benton as something against which to react, he neglected to acknowledge the debt he owed to the man Harry S. Truman once called the best damn painter in America. But how did the leader of the Regionalist movement play such an important role in the art of an Abstract Expressionist? Learn the whole story when Jeff Mishur returns for this Zoom program. This program will NOT be recorded.