Thomas Hart BentonAmerican, 1889–1975Self-Portrait
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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Meanwhile, in the life of Thomas Hart Benton
The whole life1905–1906
His father sends him to Western Military Academy
Hoping to shape his son for a political career, his father sends him to Western Military Academy. Having grown up in two different cultures, Benton rebels against his father's plans: he wants to develop his interest in art, and his mother supports him.
1907
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
With his mother's encouragement he enrolls at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, choosing art over politics; as a teenager he had worked as a cartoonist for the Joplin American newspaper in Joplin, Missouri. His mother supports him financially and emotionally until he marries at 33.
1909
Paris: the Académie Julian and a meeting with Rivera
Moves to Paris to continue his art education at the Académie Julian. There he meets other North American artists, among them the Mexican Diego Rivera and Stanton Macdonald-Wright, an advocate of Synchromism, under whose influence Benton later adopts a Synchromist style.
