Long associated with General Electric, both appliances and lighting, Frank Bensing also did ad work for Karo Syrup, Coke, Hinds, Monarch Foods and Post Toasties. He also did "slick work", covers and story art, for Country Gentlemen, American Legion, Pictorial Review, McCall's, Saturday Evening Post, Coronet, Redbook.

He contributed photography for the Post and American Legion and created movie posters for RKO.

Bensing handled inks, oils, and watercolors expertly and was especially good at creating interesting lines of action in what would otherwise be static scenes.

Source:
www.Americanartarchives.com

Unsigned Note:

Frank Bensing was my grandfather. He was always blind in one eye due to scarlet fever in childhood. He attended the Chicago Institute of Art for 7 years as a young man. He made his living being an illustrator and portrait painter. For fun he painted landscapes. He painted in oil, pastels, and watercolors.

He painted until the age of 88. He died at 90.

The most famous person he painted was Joseph P. Kennedy. A copy of the painting is in the book "Jack, the Struggles of John F. Kennedy by Herbert S. Parment in the picture section.