Ann Constable collection, 1931-1989.

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Ann Constable collection, 1931-1989.

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The collection contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, invitations, a manuscript, and other miscellaneous materials. The collection is composed entirely of material collected by, or given to, Constable during her years as a friend and neighbor to, and art dealer for, the Thomas Hart Benton family. The photographs are particularly significant and feature not only Thomas Hart Benton, but also Rita Benton, Jessie Benton, and Thomas Piacenza Benton.

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Benton, Jessie.

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Benton, Thomas Piacenza.

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Constable, Anne L. (Anne Louise)

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Anna (Ann) Russell was born in Osceola, Missouri on October 18, 1923. She moved to Kansas City in 1941. Here she met her future husband, Lelon (Lee) Constable, and they married on January 1, 1942. During World War II, while Lee served in the military, Ann worked for Pratt Whitney as a drill press operator. When the war ended she went to work with Lee in the family business, Constable Bindery. In 1960 the couple became neighbors of Thomas Hart Benton and his family. This began a close personal fr...

Benton, Rita.

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Rita Beatrice (Rosenfeld) Benton was born in New York City on June 28, 1918. In 1937 she studied piano at the Julliard School of Music in New York City. She received her B.A. degree from Hunter College in 1939. She took her M.A. and Ph. D. in musicology at the State University of Iowa in 1951 and 1961. She met Arthur L. Benton in Paris and they married soon after. Arthur L. Benton (1909-2006) was professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Iowa from 1948 until his retirement in 19...

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975

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Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City f...

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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There was only one individual to hold an exhibition design related curatorship at the Museum. This was D. Craig Craven. Craven joined the Museum staff in March 1964 as the exhibitions designer. The following year the position title was changed to assistant curator of exhibitions. In 1970 Craven was promoted to curator of exhibitions. He left the Museum in 1973, after a short stint as the adjunct curator of exhibitions. From the description of Curator of Exhibitions records, 1967-1972...