Ture Bengtz (1907 – November 10, 1973) was a Finnish-American artist associated with the Boston Expressionist School, an influential teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and director of the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
He also had a television show, "Bengtz on Drawing," on Boston's PBS station in the late 1950s.
At the age of 18 he emigrated from Finland to the United States to live with his relatives in Medford, Massachusetts.
[1] He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Copley Society of Art and a Master of the Masonic lodge in Malden, Massachusetts.
[8] The Art Complex Museum named its Bengtz Gallery in his honor, and published a collection of his lithographs in 1978.
[9] In 2007, the centennial of his birth was marked in Finland with an exhibition at the Önningebymuseet, and in 2010 the Finnish Government issued a postage stamp featuring a detail from the stained glass window he created for St. Olaf's Church.