Approaching Storm

1929–1974

92 lithographs, 1929–1974

From 1929 to 1974 Benton produces 92 lithographs in editions ranging from 2 to 500; the signed, limited-edition lithographs are sold at five dollars each through the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York.

1935–1941

Employed by: Kansas City Art Institute

1937

The autobiography “An Artist in America”

Publishes his autobiography An Artist in America, which is critically acclaimed; the writer Sinclair Lewis remarks that a painter who can write is a rare thing.

10 July 1939

Daughter born: Jessie Benton

1939–1944

Illustrates Twain and Steinbeck

Creates illustrations for Mark Twain's “Tom Sawyer” (1939), John Steinbeck's “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940), Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” (1941) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1944).

1940

An artist on the set of “The Long Voyage Home”

Hired, along with eight other prominent American artists, to document dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film The Long Voyage Home, an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays.