This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Turchok, Hungary, Charles Besco became a painter noted for portrait and figures and was also a lithographer and muralist. He immigrated at age seven to New York City. As a teenager, he returned to Budapest to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and then went to New York to the Art Students League. There he studied with Ernest Blumenschein, George Bridgman, and William Merritt Chase.
He served in World War I and then continued his art career in New York City as a muralist and portraitist. In the early 1930s, he moved to Los Angeles where he exhibited in local venues and did mural and portrait commissions. In 1945, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona and lived there until his death in 1960. From his studio in Phoenix, he turned his attention to desert landscape and Indians. One of his murals is at the Westward Ho Hotel in Phoenix.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California" |
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Charles Bensco is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
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