Death and Posthumous Sales
He is buried in Salem's Harmony Grove Cemetery.
To date the highest price brought at auction for an oil painting by Benson is $4.1 million, realized at Sotheby's in 1995.
On October 19, 2006, a watercolor painting by Benson was sold at auction for $165,002. The painting was anonymously donated to an Oregon Goodwill Industries site, most likely without the owner knowing of its value. Bidding on the shopgoodwill.com website started at $10, and increased after the work was authenticated.
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