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B. West Clinedinst

Artist

Centurion, 1892–1931

Full Name Benjamin West Clinedinst

Born 14 October 1859 in Woodstock, Virginia

Died 12 September 1931 in Pawling, New York

Buried Pawling Cemetery, Pawling, New York

Proposed by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh and Francis C. Jones

Elected 5 March 1892 at age thirty-two

Proposer of:

Century Memorial

The paintings of Benjamin West Clinedinst cover a variety of subjects, ranging from portraits of distinguished men to battle scenes, to which his imagination must have been directed through his attendance, in a period not long after the Civil War, at the Virginia Military Institute. In the field of portraiture, some of our best-known literary and political celebrities are on his canvases.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1932 Century Association Yearbook