Artist Biography

John Bentley was a student at the Art Students League, New York with George Bridgman, Frank DuMond, and Robert Henri. He became a landscape painter and was an early member of the Woodstock Art Colony,exhibiting at the Buffalo Society of Artists. He was also a WPA muralist, and his work is in several buildings in New York City and the Dutch Reformed Church of Woodstock. Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art".