biografia di Charles BENSCO (1894-1960)

Birth place: Austria Hungary

Death place: Phoenix, AZ

Addresses: NYC; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AZ

Profession: Painter, lecturer, teacher

Studied: Royal Acad. FA, Budapest; ASL, with Milton Banckroft, William Chase, George Bridgman, Ernest Blumenschein.

Exhibited: LACMA, 1932-1945; GGE, 1939; CPLH, 1944; Ebell A. Salon, 1932-1945 (prize 1937); Continuous exh. Paintings of the West, Westward Ho in Phoenix, Ariz. Awards: prizes, Ebell A. Salon, Los Angeles; Gardena (Cal.) H.S.; Josephine Logan medal (2); American Artist of the Year" title, AAPL, Ariz. Chptr., 1951; Cal. A. Cl., 1955, prize and medal, 1956."

Member: Soc. for Sanity in Art; Cal. AC; AAPL; Artists of the Southwest; Phoenix FA Assn.

Work: Gardena H.S.; FA & Crafts Mus., Budapest; mural, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Downey, Cal.; First Fed. Savings & Loan Assn., Phoenix, Ariz.; many portraits of prominent persons.

Comments: Immigrated to the U.S. when he was seven, but returned to Budapest in his teenage years to study art. Back in NYC, he continued his studies and after serving in WWI he was a muralist and portraitist, moving to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. When living in Arizona, he turned his attention to the local landscape and Native Americans. Lectures: art, painting.

Sources: WW59; WW40. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 44.