Thomas Hart Benton

Meet Thomas Hart Benton, a painter who refused to be confined by the art world's conventions, instead creating energetic and uncompromising works that captured the spirit of America during the Great Depression. This 1989 documentary film offers a personal and poignant portrait of the artist, one who brought his paintings directly to the people in the saloons where they would be appreciated most - rather than relegated to the rarefied world of museums.