Robert Benjamin is a renowned artist who specializes in oil paintings of landscapes. He graduated in 1969 from AHS and was very involved in his time here. He was a member of the Future Teachers of America, Junior Achievement President who represented Ohio at the National JA gathering. He won several state and national awards for commercial design while still in high school, including a journalism award for editorial cartooning from Kent State University. Upon graduation from Alliance High School he was accepted by the Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburgh.
He then moved west and worked in New Mexico to pursue art as an illustrator, art director, lithographer and art bronze foundry owner before deciding his true love was landscape painting. Robert’s lithographs have been represented in several museums and galleries including the Smithsonian Institution National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.; The Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque; and other public and private collections.
Three years after turning to painting full time, New Mexico Magazine invited Bob to be the 2001 Distinguished Calendar Artist for their millennium issue, publishing twelve of his pastels. His expression and artistic vision of the innate beauty of the New Mexico landscape continues to be celebrated in museums and private collections alike.
Mr. Benjamin was nominated by Kay Josh Brown ‘56
He then moved west and worked in New Mexico to pursue art as an illustrator, art director, lithographer and art bronze foundry owner before deciding his true love was landscape painting. Robert’s lithographs have been represented in several museums and galleries including the Smithsonian Institution National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.; The Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque; and other public and private collections.
Three years after turning to painting full time, New Mexico Magazine invited Bob to be the 2001 Distinguished Calendar Artist for their millennium issue, publishing twelve of his pastels. His expression and artistic vision of the innate beauty of the New Mexico landscape continues to be celebrated in museums and private collections alike.
Mr. Benjamin was nominated by Kay Josh Brown ‘56