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William Poundstone on Art and Chaos
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Billy Benson
Huntington Library
Jessica Todd Smith
Thomas Hart Benton
May 10, 2009
American Gothic
Curator Jessica Todd Smith
fills in the biography
of Billy Benson, homespun subject of
the Huntington's new Thomas Hart Benton painting
. Seems Benson was a sheep thief who tried to poison his parents with arsenic.
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