Thomas Hart Benton

"I would rather exhibit my pictures in whore houses and saloons where normal people would see them." — Thomas Hart Benton.

Another favorite painter of mine.  Persephone (below) was a relevation to me when I first saw it in a magazine at seventeen, for obvious reasons.  It actually did hang in a bar - the Diamond Horseshoe in Kansas City - and Benton lost his job at the Kansas City Art Institute over it.

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