S. Patricia "Patty" Benson (1941–2024) was an American artist, known for printmaking.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the Brooklyn Museum,[2] the Cincinnati Art Museum[3] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[4]

Benson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1941.[5] She was raised in Pawnee Mission, Kansas, and later moved to Greenwich, Connecticut for high school.

She later received a bachelor of arts degree in Printmaking from Michigan State University and went to pursue a Masters in Fine Arts in Printmaking at Florida State University.[6]

Benson later went on be an art educator, teaching fine arts at a number of institutions, among them, Florida State University, University of Florida, Sonoma State College, San Francisco Art Institute, Portland School of Art and the University of Southern Maine.[6] She spent her later life in Alfred, Maine, and retired from the University of Southern Maine after forty years of tenure.[7]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b "Patricia Benson | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
  3. ^ "Cincinnati Art Museum: Explore the Collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum". Cincinnati Art Museum.
  4. ^ "American Indian #10 - S. Patricia Benson". FAMSF Search the Collections. 20 September 2017.
  5. ^ admin (2024-08-05). "S. Benson Obituary - Death Notice and Service Information". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
  6. ^ a b "Obituary: S. Patricia Benson". Press Herald. 2024-08-07. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
  7. ^ "In Memoriam: Sarah "Patty" Benson, Former President of the Part-Time Faculty Association of Maine (AFT) | Maine AFL-CIO". maineaflcio.org. 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Benson
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