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Robert L Benney

Robert L. Benney (1904 - 2001) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / Romania.  Robert Benney is known for Illustrator, war artist, caricature.

The following obituary is from the New York Times, June 3, 2001

Robert L. Benney, 97, Prolific Combat Artist, Dies
By WOLFGANG SAXON

Robert L. Benney, a prolific painter and illustrator who belonged to the
vanishing breed of American combat artists, died on May 14 in Boston. He was
97 and had recently moved to Boston from Manhattan. Mr. Benney was widely shown, starting with an exhibition of theater drawings at the Museum of the City of New York in 1933. His portraits of war and peace found permanent homes at the Corcoran Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the de Young Museum in San
Francisco, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., and the
Society of Illustrators in Manhattan.

His stark oils and watercolors were among the works of combat art featured
last year on public television in the documentary "They Drew Fire." The combat art collections of all four armed services in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2976 characters.]  Artist bio

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