Family of painter Thomas Hart Benton alleges bank undersold artwork; judge disagrees

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) — 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 than 100 pieces.

Judge Mark Styles ruled there were only five Benton pieces that UMB Bank could not account for during its administration of the Benton Trust. They were not paintings, but were likely sketches or studies, reports.

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