12 Facts About Ture Bengtz

Ture Bengtz 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.

Ture Bengtz had a television show, "Bengtz on Drawing," on Boston's PBS station in the late 1950s.

Ture Bengtz worked as a house painter and went to night school to learn English.

Ture Bengtz enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1928.

Ture Bengtz won the school's top scholarship, the Paige Traveling Scholarship, which allowed him to study in Europe for two years.

Ture Bengtz taught at the museum school from 1934 to 1969.

Ture Bengtz founded the Graphics Department in 1939 and became head of the Drawing and Graphic Arts Department in 1941.

Ture Bengtz was a member of the Board of Governors of the Copley Society of Art and a Master of the Masonic lodge in Malden, Massachusetts.

Ture Bengtz worked with the architect on the building plan, and became the museum's first director in 1971.

Ture Bengtz died at his home in Duxbury, on November 10,1973.

Ture Bengtz's works are included in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Fogg Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and other museums and private collectors.

Ture Bengtz's papers are on file with the Boston Public Library.