Charles J. Bensco (c. 1894 – November 4, 1960) was a Hungarian-born American portrait painter and muralist based in Los Angeles, California from 1929 to 1949 and Phoenix, Arizona from 1949 to 1960.
[1][2] He emigrated to the United States as a child, he was educated in New York City,[3] and he served in World War I.
He became a portrait painter in Los Angeles, California in 1929, and he was an art teacher in Hollywood from 1935 to 1948.
[4] While he was living in Los Angeles, he painted the portraits of many celebrities,[5] and he exhibited his work at the Stendahl Galleries.
[6] Bensco opened a studio on Polk Street in Phoenix, Arizona in 1949, and he painted the portraits of many prominent Arizonians.