Thomas Hart Benton

An image of a Missouri official using a mural as a writing surface has spread far and wide.

Thomas Hart Benton was part of the first generation of American artists to let the influence of movies run through their work.

“Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural Rediscovered” offers a raucous, wide-angle look at America as it entered the Depression.

“America Today,” which depicts life just before the Great Depression, will go on display when the Met takes over the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue.

The 10-panel Thomas Hart Benton mural has been donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An animated rendering of how Thomas Hart Benton’s mural will appear when it is installed in 2015.

The historian Geoffrey Ward tells the story of his great-grandfather’s notorious life in “A Disposition to Be Rich.”

Justin Wolff’s look at the life of the painter Thomas Hart Benton doesn’t shy away from ambiguity.

By June 1861, Missouri was caught in a civil war within the Civil War.

What made Missouri different — and a central player in the lead up to the Civil War.