Ben Benson (1927-2002)

  
Ben Benson worked for ten years as a writer, editor, and photographer before pursuing a career in art. While he drew and painted for most of his life, it was not until 1964, after seeing an exhibition of the work of German painter, Julius Bissier that Benson began to paint seriously. Benson was a self-taught artist with an intimate, delicate and small style, working primarily on paper with watercolor and ink. Wisconsin born, Benson lived in Evanston, Illinois from the time of his graduation from Northwestern University in 1954.