S. Patricia "Patty" Benson (1941–2024) was an American artist, known for printmaking.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[1] the Brooklyn Museum,^[2] the Cincinnati Art Museum^[3] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.^[4]

Benson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1941.^[5] She was raised in Pawnee Mission, Kansas, and later moved to Greenwich, Connecticut for high school.

She later received a bachelor of arts degree in Printmaking from Michigan State University and went to pursue a Masters in Fine Arts in Printmaking at Florida State University.^[6]

Benson later went on be an art educator, teaching fine arts at a number of institutions, among them, Florida State University, University of Florida, Sonoma State College, San Francisco Art Institute, Portland School of Art and the University of Southern Maine.^[6] She spent her later life in Alfred, Maine, and retired from the University of Southern Maine after forty years of tenure.^[7]

• Patricia Benson, Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America, 1969, screenprint, 28 1⁄2 x 21 in. (72.4 x 53.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1970.25
• S. Patricia Benson, Vulture II, 1968. Engraving Brooklyn Museum, Bristol-Myers Fund, 68.105.1.

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