Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton Thinking from Elsewhere 2003) and Crumpled Paper Boat

2003) and Crumpled Paper Boat (Duke

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Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton Thinking from Elsewhere 2003) and Crumpled Paper BoatWhen a contemporary writer turns her imagination loose inside the images of an iconicartist of the past, the result is storytelling magic at its best. Here are nine tales that bring to vivid life the early decades of the 20th century as witnessed by one of America's most well known painters. Thomas Hart Benton sketched fiddlers and farm wives, preachers and soldiers, folks gathering in dance halls and tent meetings. Though his lithographs depict the