Word: neosho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board room ready to be looked at were nine vibrant mural panels which have already attracted national attention and brought fame to the New School as a building, whatever may be its success as an institution. The artist is Thomas Hart Benton. Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted Senator Thomas Hart Benton, son of Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton. At 17, Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting...