Thomas Hart Benton skirts a really strange area between postcard illustration and tripped out dreams. he painted "Trail Riders" in 1964 when he was 75. his style informs the modern low-brow techniques of recent times. it has a liquidity that produces a morphed space of unsureness. it sways like the ocean. Benton taught Jackson Pollock at the NY Art Students League in the early 1930's. Pollock always said that being there gave him something to rebel against, but because Benton was painting like this then, i think Pollock took a bit of the organic aesthetic on board.
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