COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM'S THOMAS HART BENTON PAINTING CHOSEN FOR NATIONAL EDUCATION RESOURCE PROGRAM

06.09.08 - 10:22 ... source : Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum

... Posted: 9/5/2008 Nashville, TN (September 5, 2008) ? This afternoon, at an event at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recognized and honored the selection of a painting from the Museum's permanent collection, Thomas Hart Benton's The Sources of Country Music (1975), for the NEH's new Picturing AmericaSM. program. Picturing America is a free educational resource that provides 40 reproductions of great American artworks and an illustrated teachers resource book to schools and public libraries nationwide, where they can be used to help teach American history and culture.In June, the NEH announced that over 26,000 schools and public libraries across the United States will receive the Picturing America materials this month. 504 are located in Tennessee - 32 in Nashville. Applications for a sec ...» Next (HTML)