Ture Bengtz

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Ture Bengtz
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
SpouseLillian Ericson Bengtz

Ture Bengtz (1907 – November 10, 1973) was a

Boston Expressionist School, an influential teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and director of the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He also had a television show, "Bengtz on Drawing," on Boston's PBS
station in the late 1950s.

Early life and education

Bengtz was born in Åland, Finland, in 1907. At the age of 18 he emigrated from Finland to the United States to live with his relatives in Medford, Massachusetts. He worked as a house painter and went to night school to learn English. While taking an art class at night school, a teacher noticed Bengtz's talent and suggested he apply to an art school.[1]

Bengtz enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (the "museum school") in 1928. He won the school's top scholarship, the Paige Traveling Scholarship, which allowed him to study in Europe for two years.[2] He graduated in 1933.[1]

Career

Bengtz taught at the museum school from 1934 to 1969. During the 1940s he taught all four years of drawing, as well as anatomy and lithography, while

Raytheon Company.[4]

In 1937, he had a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Boston City Club. The art critic for the Boston Globe called him a "versatile genius" and "one of the most promising of the younger group of Boston artists."[2] He continued to work with various media, exhibiting his work at Boston and New York galleries. Today he is best known for his lithographs.[5]

In 1946, he co-founded the Boston Printmakers Association, which is still in operation today.

St. Olaf, patron saint of Åland.[1]

Later years

After retiring from the museum school, Bengtz worked with the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser's family to plan and launch the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He worked with the architect on the building plan, and became the museum's first director in 1971.[1] He also taught art classes at Boston University.[4]

Bengtz died at his home in Duxbury, on November 10, 1973.

Fogg Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and other museums and private collectors.[5] His papers are on file with the Boston Public Library.[8]

The Art Complex Museum named its Bengtz Gallery in his honor, and published a collection of his lithographs in 1978.

Önningebymuseet, and in 2010 the Finnish Government issued a postage stamp featuring a detail from the stained glass window he created for St. Olaf's Church.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Ture Bengtz, Åland (1907-1973)". Ro Gallery. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
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  3. S2CID 192821072
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  5. ^ a b "Ture Bengtz: Life Lessons, Prints and Drawings". Childs Gallery. March 28, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
  6. ^ "Ture Bengtz". MFA.org.
  7. ^ "Bengtz, Ture, 1907-1973". Smithsonian Libraries.
  8. ^ "Ture Bengtz papers, 1935-1978". Archives of American Art.
  9. ISBN 9781584656210
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  10. ^ "Ture Bengtz uppmärksammas". Nyan.ax (in Finnish). June 9, 2007. Retrieved November 24, 2017.

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