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Wladyslaw Benda

Wladyslaw Theodor Benda (1873 - 1948) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Poland.  Wladyslaw Benda is known for Illustrations-figure, portrait, mural paintings, theatrical masks.

Cather took an active interest in the design of her books. For My Ántonia, she commissioned line drawings from the Bohemian-born artist Wladyslaw Theodor Benda. Cather requested that the illustrations be simple pen and ink drawings that resembled old woodcuts. The pictures in the first edition of My Ántonia are not just simple decorations however, but an essential part of Cather's text. Cather hints that W. T. Benda's series of drawings is her most important addition to the "substance" of the book. Ironically, the Benda illustrations, which Cather independently commissioned, received strong opposition from her publishers at Houghton Mifflin.

Wladyslaw Theodor Benda, was born in Pozan, Poland on Jan. 15, 1873 and died on Nov. 30, 1948 in Newark, N.J. He studied at the Art Academy in Kraków, Poland and in Vienna before coming to the United States in 1899. He also studied in San Francisco before settling in New York City and becoming a U.S. citizen in 1911. In additio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4508 characters.]  Artist bio

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