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Dan James discusses Benton's "He-man" persona.
Aired: 01/06/12
Video has closed captioning.General Motors Corporation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; PBS; Equitable Financial Companies; the National Endowment for the Humanities; Jules and Doris Stein Foundation; Gerald and Virginia Oppenheimer
For more than seventy years Thomas Hart Benton painted America's towns and its people.
Benton was commissioned to paint a mural depicting the social history of Missouri.
