Every head is a real person drawn from life,” he is quoted as saying in Thomas Hart Benton: The America Today Murals by Emily Braun and Thomas Branchick. Benton took on the gargantuan task of ...

The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene painter Thomas Hart Benton and a Kansas City bank accused of mismanaging his estate, selling his pieces for below their market value ...

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 ...

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 more than 100 pieces.

After a five-month trial with 67 witnesses, 3,700 exhibits and a transcript of more than 14,000 pages, a Jackson County Circuit Court judge ruled that UMB Bank did not breach its duty to the famous ...

Thomas Hart Benton’s heirs were seeking $85 million. They got $35,000. That’s the culmination of a five-month trial over a lawsuit brought in 2019 by the Kansas City artist’s daughter and ...

Family of Painter Thomas Hart Benton Alleges Bank Undersold Artwork; Judge Disagrees KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter ...

Cancel anytime. A museum patron looks at “The Engineer’s Dream” by Thomas Hart Benton at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. on Oct. 23, 2008. KANSAS CITY, Mo.