About Robert L Benney

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Robert L Benny
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    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

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