Alfred Bendiner

He was a sergeant and still stationed in Philadelphia when World War I ended in November 1918,[4]: 316  but his service earned him automatic admission to Penn.

[1] Bendiner worked on major Cret projects such as the Detroit Institute of Arts (1927), the Hartford County Courthouse (1929), and the Folger Shakespeare Library (1932).

[4]: 204 While working as a Cret draftsman during the day, Bendiner completed a master's degree in architecture from Penn at night.

[4]: 285  Penn purchased a former piano factory at the southwest corner of 33rd & Walnut Streets to house the Moore School of Engineering.

In 1938, Bendiner pitched himself to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin as a music critic, but with a twist: each review would be illustrated by his caricature of the featured musician, drawn during the performance.

The subject was a musical event that had occurred thirteen years earlier: Sergei Rachmaninoff performing as piano soloist in his Symphony No.

[7] Rachmaninoff had chosen the Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Leopold Stokowski to perform the work's world premiere, November 6, 1936.

[4]: 188, 316  He also painted murals for the offices of Blue Cross of Greater Philadelphia (1959); and The Story of Man for the University of Pennsylvania Museum.