This site features some of the beautiful works of the late Cincinnati, Ohio artist Dale Benedict. Dale’s lively impressions of quiet creeks, majestic wildlife, and Cincinnati landscapes have always captivated those who view them.
Dale Benedict was born on a farm in Brookville, Indiana in 1932. He was a painter of nature and an observer of the seasons. His formal training began in 1956 at the Central Academy of Commercial Art under the prominent Western painter Jackson Grey Storey. He took many seminars by such well known artists as Daniel Greene, Fred Leach, Don Getz and others.
In 1967, he was elected a member of the Cincinnati Art Club. In 1970, he had the first of three solo shows at “the Club” all which were very successful.
Dale was a versatile artist in both oils and acrylics, but was first recognized for his work in watercolor. This elusive medium was used exclusively for the first 20 years of his artistic career. His large detailed canvases were painted in acrylics from 1981-1990. He captured such breath-taking scenes as the Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah Valley and the Pisgah National Forest.
His landscapes of country roads, winter fields, or quiet streams bear testimony to a deep emotional attachment to rural America. His watercolors appeared three consecutive years at the juried Nature Interpreted exhibits at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.
Dale served as president of the Cincinnati Art Club from 1981-1983. He was elected an active member of the Ohio Watercolor Society in 1988.
In addition to traditional paintings of the American landscape, he also depicted North American waterfowl and wildlife.
Dale’s paintings are in the collections of Cincinnati Bell, Duke Energy, numerous banks and has been used on the cover of Procter and Gamble’s Moonbeams magazine.
In October, 1987, his first major “Cincinnati—The Queen City,” a bicentennial edition of 1000 signed and numbered prints was released. It was met with enthusiastic response and is now sold out. Three other Cincinnati prints followed : The Delta Queen vs The Belle of Louisville, The Island Queen and The Tyler Davidson Fountain. It was completed in September 2001 and was also his last print of the Queen City which he loved so much.
Since Dale’s death, his art continues to grace walls throughout Cincinnati and beyond. Dale’s eldest daughter, Elaine, continues to display and offer his work for sale.