Born
Education
| 1956 |
B.F.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio |
Teaching
| 1959 |
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland |
| 1966-67 |
San Francisco Art Institute |
| 1967-86 |
California State University, San Jose |
Awards and Honors
| 1979 |
Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, American Academy of Arts
and Letters, New York |
| 1980 |
President’s Scholar Award, California State University, San Jose |
| 1982 |
Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture, San
Francisco Arts Commission |
| 1993 |
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio |
| 1994 |
Ohioana Career Award, Ohioana Library Association, Columbus
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio |
| 2008 |
Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award,
International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey |
| 2012 |
Distinguished Arts Alumni Award, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio |
Material in Archives
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: The Fletcher Benton Papers.
The archive contains an exceptionally large number of business correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs, brochures and fliers, photographs, books and audio-visual material.