Benda, Wladyslaw T. (Wladyslaw Theodore), 1873-1948 (Personal Name)

Stratton-Porter, G. A girl of the Limberlost, 1984: CIP t.p. (Wladyslaw T. Benda)

LC data base, 5-9-84 (hdg.: Benda, Wladyslaw Theodore, 1873- ; usage: W. Benda)

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. My Ántonia: CIP t.p. (with illustrations by W. T. Benda)

Wikipedia search 2014-12-18: ("Władysław Teodor "W.T." Benda (January 15, 1873, Poznań, Poland (Posen, German Empire) - November 30, 1948, Newark, New Jersey, United States) was a Polish-American painter, illustrator, and designer. The son of musician Jan Szymon Benda, and a nephew of the actress Helena Modrzejewska (known in the United States as Helena Modjeska) . . . He came to the United States at the very end of the 19th century . . . and became a naturalized American in 1911")

Ask/Art Academic; http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=23140 (searched 2014-12-18: ("Wladslaw Theodor Benda is an illustrator remembered today primarily for his beautiful theatrical masks. . . . . Altogether, Benda was a painter, muralist, lithographer, set designer, mask maker, woodcarver, author and playwright. Benda illustrated during the "Golden Era" of American Illustration, which ran from approximately 1880-1940. Benda died on November 30, 1948, at the age of 75")

NBLA Theatre arts. Oct 1920, p 275-278.

Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.

NYPL Dict. Cat. of the Dance Coll., 1974-