| Luvena Buchanan Vysekal | |
| Birth Name: | Luvena Buchanan |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Le Mars, Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other Names: | Benjamin Blue, Luvena Vysekal |
| Alma Mater: | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Spouse: | Edouard Vysekal (1914–?) |
| Relatives: | Ella Buchanan (sister) |
Luvena Buchanan Vysekal (née Luvena Buchanan, pseudonym Benjamin Blue; December 23, 1873 – January 11, 1954) was an American portrait painter.
She was born December 23, 1873, in Le Mars, Iowa, her parents were Scottish.[1]
She was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1910 and 1914, where her future husband Edouard Vysekal was one of her professors.[2] They married in 1914, and moved to Southern California. She later opened a studio on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California.[3] In 1895 she used the alias of Hattie Lummis and wrote a poem for a song prize commissioned by the Wabash Railboard, which became "In the Shadow of the Pines," later performed by the Carter Family and Bascom Lamar Lunsford.[4] [5] She used the pseudonym "Benjamin Blue" to publish a 1922 book, Counterfeit Presentations.