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Benton working on mural

60-377-1 (untitled)
Accession Number
60-377-1
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Color
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Keywords
Mural painting and decoration
Painters
Presidential libraries
HST Keywords
Truman - Library - Mural; Benton, Thomas Hart - Benton Mural
People Pictured
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
Rights

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Credit:
Cecil H. Schrepfer
Harry S. Truman Library

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Artist Thomas Hart Benton pauses to light his pipe while working on his mural in the lobby of the Harry S. Truman Library. The mural is entitled "Independence and the Opening of the West".
Date(s)
March 10, 1960