| S. Patricia Benson | |
| Birth Name: | Sarah Patricia McMahon |
| Birth Date: | July 27, 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Death Date: | July 6, 2024, 82 years |
| Death Place: | Alfred, Maine |
| Alma Mater: | Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking, Michigan State University Master in Fine Arts in Printmaking Florida State University |
| Known For: | Printmaking |
| Notable Works: | Our Brother’s Keeper: The Indian in White America (1969), Vulture II (1968) |
| Style: | Printmaking |
| Parents: | Thomas Edward McMahon III and Sarah Adelaide Shute McMahon |
| Children: | Sarah Benson Waters, Erin Peck Yarema |
S. Patricia "Patty" Benson (1941–2024) was an American artist, known for printmaking.
Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the Brooklyn Museum,[2] the Cincinnati Art Museum[3] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[4]
Benson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1941.[5] She was raised in Pawnee Mission, Kansas, and later moved to Greenwich, Connecticut for high school.
She later received a bachelor of arts degree in Printmaking from Michigan State University and went to pursue a Masters in Fine Arts in Printmaking at Florida State University.[6]
Benson later went on be an art educator, teaching fine arts at a number of institutions, among them, Florida State University, University of Florida, Sonoma State College, San Francisco Art Institute, Portland School of Art and the University of Southern Maine. She spent her later life in Alfred, Maine, and retired from the University of Southern Maine after forty years of tenure.[7]