SALEM, MASS. – The American art world had never seen anybody like Thomas Hart Benton (1889 -1975) – macho, outspoken,
boisterous, bombastic, intense and convinced that the best art could be created in the heart land of the Midwest in the 1920s and 1930s.
JUNE 11-OCT. 3, 2026 lockwoodmathewsmansion.com lockwood_mathews_mansion CELEBRATING AMERICA'S 250th NEW EXHIBIT ♦ JUNE 11-OCT. 3, 2026 LOCKWOODMATHEWSMANSION.COM Portrait, Courtesy of Norwalk Historical Society