Background
John Everett Benson was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He began working for his father, John Howard Benson, at the age of fifteen at The John Stevens Shop.
John Everett Benson was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He began working for his father, John Howard Benson, at the age of fifteen at The John Stevens Shop.
Rhode Island School of Design.
He has designed and carved gravestones for Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and George Balanchine. He has created monumental architectural inscriptions for famous buildings such as the Prudential Center in Boston, the National Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Center, and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Los Angeles He lettered the date stones of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, District of Columbia, the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, District of Columbia and the Federal Courthouse in Boston.
He has drawn various photo-typefaces for architectural applications and a titling typeface, called Aardvark, for The Font Bureau in Boston, Alexa, Balzano, and Caliban.
Benson is currently doing portrait and figurative work in clay and bronze at his studio in Newport, Rhode Island.
