1994: Roger Medearis

Roger Medearis was a student of Thomas Hart Benton while at the Kansas City Art Institute in the late 1930s. Born in 1920, his paintings and lithographs can be found in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He also has a painting hanging next to one of Thomas Hart Benton at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.