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Benton Murdoch Spruance
1904–1967

Introduction

Benton Murdoch Spruance (June 25, 1904–December 6, 1967) was an American painter, printmaker and architect. A long-term faculty member and chair of the Arts Department at Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania, he subsequently chaired the Printmaking Department of the Philadelphia College of Art.

He became known as "the dean of Philadelphia lithographers, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Wikidata identifier

Q4890595

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Roles

Artist, architect, lithographer, painter

ULAN identifier

500055755

Names

Benton Murdoch Spruance, Benton Spruance

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