10 Facts About Rainey Bennett

Rainey Bennett was an American artist, illustrator and muralist.

Rainey Bennett's works have been displayed in major museum art collections.

In 1960, Rainey Bennett wrote as well as illustrated his own children's book, The Secret Hiding Place, about a baby hippopotamus in search of a secret hiding place.

In 1938 Rainey Bennett painted oil on canvas murals for the post offices in Dearborn, Michigan titled Ten Eyck's Tavern on Chicago Road and Rushville, Illinois titled Hart Fellows - Builder of Rushville.

Rainey Bennett painted a 13 panel mural for the Neil House Hotel in Columbus, Ohio.

The Oak Room at Robert Allerton Park contains four floral paintings by Rainey Bennett, who was a friend of the Allerton family.

In 1939, Rainey Bennett produced a series of 36 watercolors of Venezuela on commission of the Stanford Oil Company and Nelson Rockefeller, who purchased 24 of the paintings after a two-year traveling tour as an exhibit of the Museum of Modern Art.

Rainey Bennett died on December 11,1998, in his Lincoln Park home at the age of 91.

Rainey Bennett's wife, Ann, was a professional dancer and had died in 1975.

Rainey Bennett was survived by his companion, two daughters, and a son.