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Thomas Hart Benton
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Born April 15, 1889 • Neosho • Missouri
Died January 19, 1975 (aged 85) • Kansas City • Missouri
Movement / Style Social Realism

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Ben Shahn, 1966.
Ben Shahn
American artist
Justice of the Pains: The Movement Westward, mural by John Steuart Curry, 1936; in the U.S. Department of Justice Building (Robert F. Kennedy Building), Washington, D.C.
John Steuart Curry
American painter
Robert S. Duncanson
American painter
Tom Lea
American artist and writer
Philip Guston
Philip Guston
American painter
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
American artist
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
American painter
Trumbull, John
John Trumbull
American painter
Woodruff, Hale
Hale Woodruff
American painter, draftsman, printer, and educator
Winold Reiss
Winold Reiss
German-American artist
Aaron Douglas
American artist
Elizabeth Murray
American painter
Charles Alston and Romare Bearden
Charles Alston
American painter, sculptor, illustrator, and art instructor
Sam Francis
American artist
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
Anna Lea Merritt
American artist
Emanuel Leutze: Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
German-American painter
Cox, Kenyon: U.S. Navy recruitment poster
Kenyon Cox
American painter
Lancelot and Guinevere
N.C. Wyeth
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