Benton出生在 尼欧肖，密苏里 ，成为一个有影响力的家族的政客。他有两个妹妹，玛丽和米尔德丽德，和一个弟弟，纳撒尼尔。 他的母亲Elizabeth Wise Benton和他的父亲，上校 米西奈斯本顿 ，是一位律师，四次当选为 美国国会议员 。所谓的“小巨人 奥沙克 ”，Maecenas任命他的儿子自己的叔叔后  托马斯·哈特·本顿 ，第一个 美国参议员 密苏里选出。 给父亲的政治生涯中，Benton度过了他的童年之间穿梭 华盛顿，D.C. 和密苏里。他的父亲送他到 西方军事学院 在1905-1906年，希望塑造他的政治生涯。在两种不同的文化中长大，Benton背叛了他父亲的计划。他想发展自己的艺术兴趣，他的母亲支持。作为一个少年，他作为一个漫画家的 乔普林美国 在报纸上， 乔普林，密苏里 。

在妈妈的鼓励下，在参加了1907顿 芝加哥艺术学院的学校 。两年后，他搬到巴黎在1909在继续他的艺术教育 学院朱利安 。 [ 7 ] 他的母亲支持他在经济上和情感上的工作艺术，直到他30岁出头结婚。他的姐姐米尔德丽德说：“我的母亲在他成长的一大动力。” [ 4 ] 在巴黎，Benton会见了北美的其他艺术家，如墨西哥 迭戈里维拉 和 斯坦顿麦克唐纳德-赖特 ，提倡 色彩交响主义 。受到后者的影响，本顿随后采取了synchromist风格

英国的船舶由阿尔班迷彩图案作为记录Thomas Hart Benton后留学欧洲，迁至Benton 纽约市 1912、继续画。在 第一次世界大战 ，他曾在美国海军驻扎在 Norfolk，Virginia 。他的战争相关的工作有一个持久的效果，他的风格。他被要求做图和造船厂工作和生活的插图，这要求对现实的强烈影响，他后来的风格文件。在战争后期，归类为“伪装专家，“Benton画的伪装船只进入诺福克港。 [ 9 ] 他的工作是有几个原因：确保美国船舶画家是正确运用伪装方案，以帮助确定美国的船只，以后可能会丢失，并有其他盟国海军舰船的伪装的记录。他认为他对海军的工作是最重要的事情，到目前为止，我曾经作为一个艺术家，我自己做的。” [ 10 ]

 
 人的Chilmark（图组成） ，1920，在 Hirshhorn博物馆 聚集在华盛顿特区。婚姻和家庭
33岁的丽塔结婚，本顿皮亚琴察，意大利移民，1922。他们认识的时候Benton在纽约附近的一个教学组织艺术班，在那里她是他的一个学生。这对夫妇有一个儿子，Thomas Piacenza Benton，出生于1926，和一个女儿，Jessie Benton，生于1939。他们结婚将近53年，直到1975托马斯的死亡。丽塔在她丈夫去世十一周。
 
 1924，Benton在纽约的三个地标描述 麦迪逊广场 在他的画 纽约，二十出头 。在他返回纽约在20世纪20年代早期，Benton宣称自己是“一个现代主义“敌人；他开始自然的和有代表性的工作，今天被称为 地区主义 。Benton是活跃在 左派 政治他扩大了他的地方主义作品的规模，最终在他的 今天的美国 壁画在 社会研究新学院 在1930-1931年。1984壁画是购买和恢复由安盛公平挂在大厅 安盛公平塔 以1290第六大道在纽约市。 [ 11 ] 2012十二月，安盛捐赠壁画大都会艺术博物馆。 [ 12 ] 大都会的展览，”托马斯哈特本顿的今天的美国壁画的重新发现。” [ 13 ] 将持续到2015年4月19日。它们展示了Benton吸收利用的希腊艺术家的影响 EL格列柯 。 [ 14 ]
 

Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri, became an influential family of politicians. He has two sisters, Marie and Mildred, and a younger brother, Nathaniel. His mother Elizabeth Wise Benton and his father, Colonel misey mal Benton, a lawyer, was elected to the four Congress of the United states. The so-called "Little Giant Oshak", Maecenas appointed his son to his uncle after Thomas Hart Benton, the first U.S. Senator elected in Missouri. To his father's political career, Benton spent his childhood shuttling between Washington, D.C. and Missouri. His father sent him to the Western Military Academy in 1905-1906, hoping to shape his political career. Growing up in two different cultures, Benton betrayed his father's plan. He wanted to develop his artistic interest and his mother's support. As a teenager, he worked as a cartoonist Joplin in the newspaper, Joplin, Missouri.
Encouraged by her mother, she attended the 1907 Chicago School of art. Two years later, he moved to Paris in 1909 to continue his college of art education at Julian. [7] his mother supported his economic and emotional work art until he was married at the age of 30. His sister, Mildred, said: "my mother was a big driver in his growth." [4] in Paris, Benton met with other artists such as North America, Mexico Diego Rivera and Stanton Macdonald - Wright, advocate synchromism. Influenced by the latter, Benton subsequently took the synchromist style
The British ship by Alban Thomas Hart Benton as a camouflage pattern recorded after Benton moved to New York city to study in Europe, 1912, continue to draw. In World War I, he served in the U.S. Navy at Norfolk, Virginia. His war related work has a lasting effect on his style. He was asked to do drawings and illustrations of shipyard work and life, which required a strong influence on the reality of his later style paper. At the end of the war, classified as "camouflage expert," camouflage painting into the Norfolk harbor ship Benton. [9] his work is for several reasons: to ensure that the United States Marine painter is the correct use of camouflage scheme, to help determine the American ships, later may be lost, and other allied naval camouflage records. He believes that his work on the navy is the most important thing, so far, I have worked as an artist, I do." [10]
People's Chilmark (pictured), 1920, gathered at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. c.. Marriage and family
The 33 year old married Rita Benton immigrants from Italy, Piacenza, 1922. They met when Benton was in a teaching organization near New York, where she was one of his students. The couple had a son, Thomas Piacenza Benton, was born in 1926, and a daughter, Jessie Benton, was born in the year of 1939. They were married for nearly 53 years, until the death of Thomas in 1975. Rita eleven weeks after her husband's death.
1924, Benton in New York, the landmark of the Madison square in his paintings of New York, in the early days of the twenty. On his return to New York in early 1920s, Benton claimed to be a "modernist" enemy; he began to natural and representative work, today known as regionalism. Benton was active in leftist politics as he expanded the scale of his localism, culminating in his contemporary American mural in the new Institute of social studies in 1930-1931. 1984 murals were purchased and restored by AXA equitable hanging in the hall tower in 1290 AXA equitable Sixth Avenue in New York city. [11] in December 2012, Anderson donated Metropolitan Museum of Art murals. [12] metropolitan exhibition, "the rediscovery of Thomas Hart Benton murals of the United States today." [13] will continue until April 19, 2015. They show the influence of Greek artists on Benton uptake by EL Greco. [14]