A five-year legal battle between the heirs of Missouri painter Thomas Hart Benton and the Kansas City bank that handled his trust has ended with a judge awarding the family a fraction of the millions ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min After a 10-year dispute between ...
FILE - A museum patron looks at "The Engineers's Dream" by Thomas Hart Benton at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ...
"The Sources of Country Music" was Thomas Hart Benton's last painting. The Missouri artist’s descendants charge that UMB Bank, Benton estate trustees, mismanaged artwork in its care, even selling ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min UMB Bank is asking a federal ...
Thomas Hart Benton's painting 'People of Chilmark (Figure Composition),' 1920. (Thomas Hart Benton, public domain, Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) ST. LOUIS (CN) — The Eighth Circuit on ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 100 pieces of art by the late Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton have been lost from an estate mismanaged by UMB Bank, according to a lawsuit filed in probate ...
After a five-month trial with 67 witnesses, 3,700 exhibits and a transcript of more than 14,000 pages, a Jackson County Circuit Court judge ruled that UMB Bank did not breach its duty to the famous ...
Kansas City, Mo. — A Missouri judge has rejected arguments that a bank mismanaged American painter Thomas Hart Benton’s estate by selling his artwork for less than what it was worth and losing more ...