FILE - A museum patron looks at "The Engineers's Dream" by Thomas Hart Benton at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ...

The Thomas Hart Benton mural "Independence and the Opening of the West" is at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. UMB lawyers said the allegations lack context and the ...

An image of a Missouri official using a mural as a writing surface has spread far and wide. By anne marie hankins Thomas Hart Benton was part of the first generation of American artists to let the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter Thomas Hart Benton's estate by selling his artwork for less than what it was worth and losing ...