Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975) was one of the principal American regionalist painters of the 1930s. (encyclopedia.com)
This is exactly revealed by the contemporary surge of nationalist and regionalist movements. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Supported by Time Magazine's owner, the arch-conservative Henry Luce, the Christmas 1934 edition of Time featured a painting by Benton along with highly positive reviews of other Regionalist art. (visual-arts-cork.com)