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| Born in Wisconsin, Rachel Bentley was in northern California by 1940 and began painting in the early 1950s, focusing on old buildings, especially the depiction of the few remaining small, rural school houses. She did about one-hundred of those subjects and also painted many additional structures including the railway station in Menlo Park, the town where she lived.
Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Doris Dawdy, "Artists of the American West"
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Note from a researcher for The Ashworth Collection of Western and Native American Art-Arkansas
Ms. Rachel Bentley is a listed Menlo Park, California artist who is most known for her gorgeous California landscapes. Most of her landscapes include buildings like old barns, etc. in watercolor.
Ms. Bentley painted mostly rural California scenes.
Ms. Bentley received a lengthy write-up in Dorothy Ostrander Dawdy's book "Artists of the American West" and deserves to be far more widely recognized.
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