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Thomas Craven
Thomas Craven (January 6, 1888 – February 27, 1969) was an American author, critic and lecturer, who promoted the work of American Regionalist painters, Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, among others. He was known for his caustic comments and being the “leading decrier of the School of Paris.” 〔("Thomas Craven, Author, Dead; Caustic Art Critic and Lecturer," ) New York Times, March 1, 1969.〕
==Life==
He was born in 1888, in Salina, Kansas, the son of Richard Price and Virginia Bates Cravens.〔''Kansas Biographical Dictionary: People of All Times and Places Who Have Been Important to the History and Life of the State'', Somerset Publishers, 2nd Edition, 2000, page 86〕 He graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University in 1908. He has been described as "a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is
dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto
Rico (''sic''), a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet."〔Books: Outline of Art,''Time'', April 27, 1931.〕 He was friends with numerous artists of his day including George Grosz〔''George Grosz: An Autobiography,'' University of California Press, 1998, page 298, ISBN 978-0-520-21327-2〕 and Thomas Hart Benton.〔("In Print: Benton, Pollock, and their Martha's Vineyard connection," ) Martha's Vineyard Times, December 8, 2010.〕 He married Aileen St. John-Brenon, on August 25, 1923 and they were divorced in 1947. He summered in West Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard and moved there permanently in 1949.〔 He died in Boston, Massachusetts on February 27, 1969 at the age of 81.
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