Regionalist radio: Thomas Hart Benton on Art for Your Sake

69. Levine and Levine, The People and the President, 14-15.

70. Williams, The America of Mister Thomas Hart Benton, 9-10.

71. "Supplementary Instructions No. HE to the American Guide Manual," October 1938, quoted in Jerrold Hirsch, Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 86, 87.

72. Hirsch, Portrait of America, 95.

73. Williams, The America of Mister Thomas Hart Benton, 1.

74. Holland, Art for Your Sake, 3.

75. Art for Your Sake, NAS membership brochure (New York: National Art Society, 1939), n.p.

76. Report of the President, 13, 14.

77. "'Art for Your Sake,'" Bulletin of the Milwaukee Art Institute 14 (November 1939): 3; and Fisher to Angell, December 11, 1939, NBCW, box 66, folder 22.

78. L. H. Titterton to Pat Kelly, interdepartmental correspondence, NBC, New York, December 8, 1939, NBCW, box 66, folder 22.

79. Fisher to Angell, December 11, 1939.

80. "Notes on Television," New York Times, January 28, 1940, 10; "Telecasts This Week," New York Times, March 10, 1940, 161, and March 24, 1940, 118. The television version met considerable enthusiasm from top executives at NBC; Thomas H. Hutchinson to A. H. Morton, December 5, 1939, NBC interdepartmental correspondence, NBCW, box 66, folder 22. No film or audio recording of the telecasts is known to survive.

81. Williams, The America of Mister Thomas Hart Benton, 10.

82. Benton, An Artist in America, 217.

83. Bernard Myers, in Williams, The America of Mister Thomas Hart Benton, 21, 22. Benton repeatedly attempted to get increased monies--significantly more than was initially agreed on--from Juliana Force, secretary to Gloria Vanderbilt Whitney, for his work on the Whitney murals, a scandal that was reported in the press; see Anita Brenner, "Art and American Life," Nation 136 (January 18, 1933): 72-73. Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, 184, points out that four years later, in his autobiography, Benton gave an "audaciously misleading account" of this course of events.

84. See Benton's comments in Ruth Pickering, "Thomas Hart Benton on His Way Back to Missouri," Arts and Decoration 42 (February 1935): 20, reprinted in Matthew Baigell, ed., A Thomas Hart Benton Miscellany: Selections from His Published Opinions, 1916-1960 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1971), 76.

85. Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original, 186.

86. Report of the President, 25-26. As of 1941, the largest radio station in Wyoming carried only 500 watts; Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People, American Guidebook Series (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941), xxii-xxiii.

87. Report of the President, 11, 16. See also Blevins Davis to Mrs. Harry Payne (Gertrude Vanderbilt) Whitney, September 22, 1939, NBCW, box 66, folder 22.

88. "Program Features Benton: Foremost Artist's Life and Work Is Subject of Study," Casper Tribune Herald, November 6, 1940; clipping in Associated American Artists papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (hereafter AAA papers), reel D255, frame 795.