sadburro:

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.   

firsttimeuser:

Thomas Hart Benton working on his painting “The Rape of Persephone”

photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Persephone, 1938 by Thomas Hart Benton

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