Painting America

Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 7sVideo has Closed Captions

For more than seventy years Thomas Hart Benton painted America's towns and its people.

Aired 05/02/2017

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Painting America

Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 7sVideo has Closed Captions

For more than seventy years Thomas Hart Benton painted America's towns and its people.

Thomas Hart Benton painted America. For more than seventy years he painted its cities and small towns, its farms and backwoods. He painted its people, too: faith healers and lovers, politicians and soda jerks, farmers and movie stars.

Aired 05/02/2017

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General Motors Corporation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; PBS; Equitable Financial Companies; the National Endowment for the Humanities; Jules and Doris Stein Foundation; Gerald and Virginia Oppenheimer