Benson Bond Moore

Benson Bond Moore (13 August 1882 – 1 November 1974) was a Native American painter from the United States most noted for drawing sketches and portrait paintings of animals and landscapes.

Early life and education Benson Bond Moore was born in Washington D.C. on August 13, 1882. Moore grew up in an artistic environment and learned art restoration and framing from his father who provided those services to prominent political figures in the Washington D.C. area.

Moore studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Edmund Messer, Richard Brooke and Max Weyl, teachers who were part of the late-nineteenth-century landscape school, and at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger. Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, Maryland Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, Florida National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., United States Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. United States Department of State, Washington D.C.