Bentley Schaad (1925–1999), was a California modernist and art educator.
Bentley Schaad was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1925.
A pupil, and later a colleague, of Henry Lee McFee, Schaad learned the principles of line, color and form.
[2] Schaad was a prolific artist in the West Coast modernist movement along with Henry Lee McFee, Rico Lebrun and Richard Haines.
His paintings were often composed of many broken planes of color — with a concentration on shape, form and structure of an object.