Missouri GOP Vice Chair uses Thomas Hart Benton Mural as Writing Desk.

[DMX7]

Seriously?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/09/23/arts/23freed-artsbeat1/23freed-artsbeat1-tmagArticle.jpg


COLUMBIA, Mo. — A community newspaper photographer’s picture of a Republican official using a Thomas Hart Benton mural as a writing backdrop went viral on Monday.

Dave Marner, the editor of the Gasconade County (Missouri) Republican, took the picture of the Missouri Republican Party’s vice chairwoman, Valinda Freed, and an unidentified man, scribbling on business cards pressed against the mural. Mr. Marner was covering a veto session at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City last Wednesday when he snapped the photo.

“I was befuddled,” he said. “Who exchanges numbers on a Thomas Hart Benton mural?”

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[DMX7]

And for those of you who don't know who Thomas Hart Benton is, he is a great American artist.

Jackson Pollock was one of his students and he has work featured at the Smithsonian.

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Vulgarians at the Gate (actually inside in red states).

[CosmicCowboy]

I have a small pencil sketch Benton original.

kind of like this

http://silverandexact.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/haystack-thomas-hart-benton-1938.jpg

not really my style but inherited it from my aunt that married my grandfather. long story

[DarrinS]

Kill Them!