Benoit - Edward
Benoit, Edward (?)
Edward Benoit worked with George West lettering and painting signs for East Rock and West Rock Parks using larcoloid, an acrylic latex gloss enamel applied to primed metal surfaces. The signs were directional placed along nature trails; textual describing the life cycle, behavior, and habitats of birds, insects, mammals, and vegetation and explaining natural processed like the creation of boulders during the Ice Age; and representational providing paintings of animals and plants described. Benoit completed 177 signs for East Rock Park. His WPA Artist’s Work Card states that he also did “General Work in the Bldg.” from 1937-1938. Nothing else is known about him.
Source: WPA Artist’s Work Card.
Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Edward Benoit:
| Black Eyed Susan: | larcoloid |
| Bouncing Bet: | larcoloid |
| Indian Pipes: | larcoloid |
| Jack in the Pulpit: | larcoloid |
| New Jersey Lea: | larcoloid |
| Poison Ivy: | larcoloid |
| Rattlesnake Plantain: | larcoloid |
| Self Heal All: | larcoloid |
| Water Pennymort: | larcoloid |
| Virginia Creeper: | larcoloid |
| Wild Peanut: | larcoloid |
| Wild Strawberry: | larcoloid |
| Four Leaved Loosetrife: | larcoloid |
| Ferns: | larcoloid |
| American Maidenhave: | larcoloid |
| Bracken: | larcoloid |
| The Christmas Fern: | larcoloid |
| Hayscentend: | larcoloid |
| Lady: | larcoloid |
| Elm: | larcoloid |
| Hemlock: | larcoloid |
| Hickory: | larcoloid |
| Hop Hornbean: | larcoloid |
| Lichen: | larcoloid |
| Licopodium: | larcoloid |
| Maple: | larcoloid |
| Mockernut: | larcoloid |
| Oak: | larcoloid |
| Pine: | larcoloid |
| Sassafras: | larcoloid |
| Tulip: | larcoloid |
| Vebwin: | larcoloid |
| Insects: | larcoloid |
| A Model Dairy: | larcoloid |
| Cicade: | larcoloid |
| Cow Vetch: | larcoloid |
| Cinquefoil: | larcoloid |
| White Baneberry: | larcoloid |
| June Bug: | larcoloid |
| Honey Bee: | larcoloid |
| Housefly: | larcoloid |
| Monarch Butterfly: | larcoloid |
| Mosquito: | larcoloid |
| Praying Mantis: | larcoloid |
| Lent Caterpillar: | larcoloid |
| Wasp: | larcoloid |
| Sassafras: | larcoloid |
| Pine: | larcoloid |
| Aspen: | larcoloid |
| Sugar Maple: | larcoloid |
| Cedar: | larcoloid |
| Wild Black Cherry: | larcoloid |
| Blue Flag Iris: | larcoloid |
| New England Aster: | larcoloid |
| True Forget Me Not: | larcoloid |
| Virginia Spring Beauty: | larcoloid |
| Black Throated Green Warbler: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Chipping Sparrow: | larcoloid |
| Dickissel: | larcoloid |
| Connecticut Warbler: | larcoloid |
| Red Eyed Towhee: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Goldfinch: | larcoloid |
| Black and White Warbler: | larcoloid |
| Cat Bird: | larcoloid |
| Oven Bird: | larcoloid |
| Wood Thrush: | larcoloid |
| Veery: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Crow: | larcoloid |
| Alder Flycatcher: | larcoloid |
| Black Throated Warbler: | larcoloid |
| Ant: | larcoloid |
| Cecropia Moth: | larcoloid |
| Firefly: | larcoloid |
| Grasshopper: | larcoloid |
| Nature Trail: | larcoloid |
| Here Begins a Nature Trail: | larcoloid |
| On This Trail You Will Find: | larcoloid |
| End of the Trail: | larcoloid |
| Police Tags: | larcoloid |
| Fire Prevention: | larcoloid |
| Nature Trail (Directions): | larcoloid |
| Nature Trail (Directions): | larcoloid |
| Nature Trail (Directions): | larcoloid |
| Northern Blue Jay: | larcoloid |
| Baltimore Oriole: | larcoloid |
| Indigo Bunting: | larcoloid |
| Scarlet Tanager: | larcoloid |
| Red Billed Woodpecker: | larcoloid |
| Red Headed Woodpecker: | larcoloid |
| Northern Flicker: | larcoloid |
| Cedar Waxing: | larcoloid |
| Red Winged Blackbird: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Rubin: | larcoloid |
| Black Billed & Yellow Billed Cuckoo: | larcoloid |
| English House Sparrow: | larcoloid |
| Rose Breasted Nuthatch: | larcoloid |
| White Breasted Nuthatch: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Cardinal: | larcoloid |
| Canada Jay: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Field Sparrow: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Tree Sparrow: | larcoloid |
| Mocking Bird: | larcoloid |
| Yellow Billed Cuckoo: | larcoloid |
| Carolina Wreen: | larcoloid |
| Northern Shrike: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Blue Bird: | larcoloid |
| Black Poll Warbler: | larcoloid |
| Yellow Bellied Flycatcher: | larcoloid |
| Brown Creeper: | larcoloid |
| Eastern Meadow: | larcoloid |
| Black Cevenian Warbler: | larcoloid |
| Brown Trasher: | larcoloid |
| Maidenhair: | larcoloid |
| The Winged Beech: | larcoloid |
| Leaves: | larcoloid |
| Roots and Plants: | larcoloid |
| Story of West Rock: | larcoloid |
| Story of the Bolders [sic]: | larcoloid |
| Another Rock Story: | larcoloid |
| The Story Beneath Your Feet: | larcoloid |
| Yarrow: | larcoloid |
| Witch Hazel: | larcoloid |
| Spice Brush: | larcoloid |
| Sarsaparilla: | larcoloid |
| Wild Sarsaparilla: | larcoloid |
| Catbriar: | larcoloid |
| Huckleberry: | larcoloid |
| Blueberry: | larcoloid |
| Shade Brush: | larcoloid |
| Mountain Laurel: | larcoloid |
| Wild Honeysuckle: | larcoloid |
| State Flowers: | larcoloid |
| Mountain Laurel: | larcoloid |
| Trees (general): | larcoloid |
| Trees (general): | larcoloid |
| Let No One Say: | larcoloid |
| Old Saying: | larcoloid |
| Skunk Cabbage: | larcoloid |
| Poison Ivy: | larcoloid |
| Poison Sumac: | larcoloid |
| Jack in the Pulpit: | larcoloid |
| Pink Lady Slippers: | larcoloid |
| Showy Lady Slippers: | larcoloid |
| Grape Vine: | larcoloid |
| Red and Gray Squirrels: | larcoloid |
| Deer: | larcoloid |
| Apple: | larcoloid |
| Ash: | larcoloid |
| Aspen: | larcoloid |
| Beech: | larcoloid |
| Birch: | larcoloid |
| Catalpa: | larcoloid |
| Cedar: | larcoloid |
| Cherry: | larcoloid |
| Chestnut: | larcoloid |
| Dogwood: | larcoloid |
| Smoothe Sumac: | larcoloid |
| Trailing Arbutus: | larcoloid |
| Flowering Raspberry: | larcoloid |
| Sweet William Phlox: | larcoloid |
| Virginia Strawberry: | larcoloid |
| Cardinal Flower: | larcoloid |
| New York Aster: | larcoloid |
| Mountain Laurel: | larcoloid |
| Common Sunflower: | larcoloid |
| Oxeye Daisy: | larcoloid |
| Virginia Creeper: | larcoloid |
| Violet: | larcoloid |
| American Columbine: | larcoloid |
| Black Chokeberry: | larcoloid |
| Pasture Rose: | larcoloid |
| Flowering Dogwood: | larcoloid |
| Sweetflag: | larcoloid |
| Red Chokeberry: | larcoloid |
| Black Eyed Susan: | larcoloid |