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. Stahl was a close friend to Eric Sloane.
He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then became a magazine
and book illustrator whose publications included American Artist, Saturday
Evening Post, Magazine World, the anniversary edition 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
also built a circular museum building that housed his collection of
large paintings illustrated for a later version of "The Bible".
Still a mystery, the museum was broken into and the collection stolen
and never recovered.
His wife
was his favorite model.
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