THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)Bookplate for Stanley Durlacher. Collotype on cream laid paper. 141x100 mm; 5½x4 inches. 1932. Benton was already seen as a leader in the Regionalist movement and a celebrated muralist by the time the WPA started the Federal Arts Program. He had been commissioned to paint murals of life in Indiana for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, which caused controversy. In 1934, his work was featured on the cover on Time magazine, which legitimized Regionalism as an art movement. His murals were influential for many of the artists hired as muralists under the WPA.