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BEN STAHL (1910 – 1987)

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BEN STAHL (1910 – 1987)
BEN STAHL (1910 – 1987)
Judy
Oil on Board, 16" x 12"
signed lower left
Benjamin Albert Stahl was a painter and illustrator, who was born
in Chicago, Illinois, lived in Weston, Connecticut in the 1940s and 1950s, and
then settled in Sarasota, Florida. There he was Vice President of the Sarasota Art
Association. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then became a magazine
and book illustrator whose publication included American Artist, Saturday Evening
Post, Magazine World, the anniversary of Gone With The Wind and Blackbeard's
Ghost. Commissions included the depiction of the fourteen stations of the cross for
the Catholic Bible and Catholic Press in Chicago in 1955. He taught at the Chicago
Academy of Fine Arts and was a founding faculty member of the Famous Artists School
in Westport, Connecticut. Ben Stahl lived in San Miguel Allende, Mexico the last years
of his life. Before that he lived and worked in Sarasota, Florida, where he built a
circular museum building that housed his collection of large paintings illustrated for
a later version of the "The Bible". Still a mystery, the museum was broken into and the
collection stolen and never recovered. His wife was his favorite model.