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for SALLIE BENTON
LilyandLouBerger
May 14, 2025
May it bring Peace to all our grieving hearts that Sallie and Benton, beloved souls, are together again, surely in Paradise, everlasting. On Earth we are thankful that they both live on in their son who they adored and who we love. Lily and Lou
April Gornik
June 11, 2024
I am so so sad to hear that Sallie passed away, and that I didn't know about this when it happened! She was a wonderful person, a sparkling person and someone I admired. Much love to her family.
Sybil sage
May 5, 2024
A photo of sallie appeared on the memories page of my computer yesterday and brought a smile to my face. Sallie was a delight. I felt blessed to know her and bob
Elizabeth Hollander
August 22, 2023
Shocked and gutted to learn this so late. Sallie hired me as a model sometime around 1990 to pose for her drawing group. After the first session she pulled me aside and said "I have to paint you" - and she did, over and over, for over a year, in a series of portraits that looked like me, like her, like people in my life she'd not met. And as she painted, we looked at each other hard and talked about work, family, art, and love - (kind of all the same thing, I think she'd agree) - the upshot was that we both ended up going to graduate school - she to paint at Yale, where she shook up and warmed up a whole department, and I to at CUNY, where I explored the idea of artists and models in literature. We remained dear friends through the decades. She was unlike any of the artists I befriended in my years as a model - singularly full of joy and vitality and readiness to be in the world as well as looking at it. She was as socially energetic as she was artistically gifted - a professional wife , a watchful mother, and a driven artist all at once. One of the things we talked about was how to sort those things out...and how not to. She was also a wonderfully generous and loyal friend. We saw each other in ways it had never occurred to either of us to be seen, and it made a huge difference to both of us. It's hardly imaginable that she's gone. I mourn her loss, and treasure her memory. An extraordinary woman.
Rusty Unger
May 18, 2023
Heartbreaking to imagine a world without Sallie. Sending love from Rusty U.
barbara pizik
May 15, 2023
My heart goes out to Benton - Sallie was such a delightful force of energy-talent-humor- I always looked forward to her visits when I came to NY - always such a joy to visit with her - barbara
Cynthia Kraman
May 12, 2023
Her talent, her energy, her wonderful humor--I will miss our beloved Sallie. My thoughts are with Benton and the family. Abbot joins in my sadness-Cynthia
sybil sage
May 11, 2023
It's hard to picture the world, the art world and the Benton family without the radiant and wonderful Sallie. My heart goes out to you.
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