I love this painting. I am lucky enough to live near the Nelson Atkins Museum where it is housed. I visit it almost once a month. Such a wonderful elevation of the American Mid-west to the grandeur of European metamythology.
Thomas Hart Benton working on his painting “The Rape of Persephone”
photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Persephone, 1938 by Thomas Hart Benton
I love this painting. I am lucky enough to live near the Nelson Atkins Museum where it is housed. I visit it almost once...