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Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...artists who embodied it best were Benton, Wood and John Steuart Curry. They hardly knew one another. But it happened that Henry Luce was looking for a patriotic circulation builder for the Christmas 1934 issue of TIME. Walker was duly interviewed, Benton's self-portrait went on the cover, and American regionalism was born. "A play was written and a stage erected for us," Benton would later remark. "Grant Wood became the typical Iowa small towner, John Curry the typical Kansas farmer, and I just an Ozark hillbilly. We accepted our roles...