Art for Every Home Speaker Series presentation on Oct 29 at 5:30pm
Joan Stack, State Historical Society of Missouri curator, will present “Thomas Hart Benton: The Perils of War” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 in the second installment of the Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists speaker series. AAA artist Thomas Hart Benton began a series of eight paintings known collectively as “The Year of Peril” immediately after the December 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, compelled to express on canvas this heightened threat to American democracy.
