On this day, December 10, 2025, I john Presco, Copyright all the mural done by my later Brother-in-Law…Garth Benton.
John Presco
President: Rosamond Benton Creations RBC
Dolores Hope commissioned Garth Benton to paint a mural a la Rousseau on the back wall of the bar and a greenhouse-style wall of plants in the spa.
Christine Rosamond Benton at the Getty mansion in San Francisco
Capturing Beauty
On this day, January 15, 2025, I John Presco Copyright all surviving murals rendered by my late brother-in-law, Paul Garfield Benton, a.k.a. Garth Benton. I am applying for a grant from the Getty Foundation to locate, and register Garth’s work something he set out to do. I am going to ask for residency for the rest of my life, so I can give lessons to visitors of the Getty Villa, and the Getty Center, that both survived the Firestorm..
Above is a mural Garth did for Dolores Hope. If Garth were alive, he would bpw at my feet. Who can believe I have rescued the Benton Family Art from the Pit of Despair – and I live on a thousand a month! My credulity was und attack twenty-four hours a day!
I got a haircut yesterday, and my women barber asked me if I had an interesting Christmas and New Year? I recalled telling my Doctor it was not a good idea to tell my anthologists about Drew Benton – just before she put me under!
“What a novel way to get rid of……of the anguish!” she said. We laughed.
I celebrated thirty-eight years of sobriety on April 7th…………..by myself! My Barber told me about the miraculous Christmas she had, and thus, I celebrated the afterglow of her Christmas, with her family, Her father had a newspaper in Springfield that I will blog on.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Ptess.
Copyright 2025
“What a joy to have your murals!”
– Bob and Dolores Hope
“Your work is truly fine, and you go above and beyond the call of duty. So when you present your final bill to me, make it for whatever you like…within reason, of course.”
– Barbra Streisand
Garth Benton is Dead
Posted on May 7, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
I learned from sister, Vicki Presco, that the father of our niece, Drew Benton, passed away five days ago. Garth Benton married Christine Rosemond Presco in 1986. Garth was married to the actress, Harlee McBride, before that, and had two daughters, Jessica, and Bree.
I was glad to hear that Drew was there for her father when he passed, with the help of Vicki. This is the family unity that I hoped for when I visited Vicki in June so we can go foreword. We have spent too much time at the stern of the ship looking at the destructive flotsam in our wake. We have been moving to the bow of the ship in order behold a brighter future.
For those who have inherited at least one of the Muses, let us continue to look to our creations, our beautiful children, and the loving bonds we made, for inspiration.
Above are the images of the beautiful Muses that Garth rendered in his mural ‘Hall of the Nine Muses’. Bree is performing a one act show in New York. Drew is working on new artwork. Here is the webpage Drew designed for her father: http://www.garthbenton.com/
Jon Presco
The murals on the J. Paul Getty Museum’s garden walls have been seen by millions of visitors since the Malibu institution opened 20 years ago. But who knew that the artist who painted–and is now restoring–the realistic likenesses of columns, garlands and still-life arrangements is Garth Benton, a third cousin of Thomas Hart Benton? The 53-year-old artist never met his famous relative, an American regionalist painter who rejected modern abstraction and championed a muscular style of realism until his death in 1975. But the younger Benton was turned on to art at the age of 8 when he saw a book of his relative’s paintings, and he occasionally corresponded with the late artist, who spent much of his life in his home state of Missouri.
Fine art connoisseurs insist that Garth Benton creates the kind of exquisite murals that “should be admired and treasured.” Insiders say Benton’s “never-ending” skills are made manifest by the diversity of his commissions, which are inspired by everything from first-century Roman frescoes to eighteenth-century Chinese wallpaper to Art Deco and Modern designs.
Benton, who has been described as one of the top five muralists in the world, truly executes museum-quality pieces. He has worked on such notable projects as the 1,000-foot mural in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, and been published in fine art books. Benton studied art at UCLA and Art Center College of Design after being inspired by the work of his cousin, the late Thomas Hart Benton, a teacher of Jackson Pollock and a well-known artist in his own right.
Benton is renowned for his meticulous research, immersing himself in the history of a civilization before he lifts his brush. Benton often paints his murals on canvas so they can be transported, a detail clients appreciate—especially when they decide to move. Though sources say they “cannot put a price” on these works of art, they willingly write a very large check.
Representative Client Comments:
“Benton’s work is breathtaking.” “In addition to being one of most talented artists of his time, he is a wonderful person—soulful and real.” “I am glad to know that this kind of skilled artist still exists.” “Garth transports you to another time with his art.”
“To Garth with appreciation of your wonderful assistance and with warmest, best wishes.”
– Betty and Gerald Ford
“What a joy to have your murals!”
– Bob and Dolores Hope
“Your work is truly fine, and you go above and beyond the call of duty. So when you present your final bill to me, make it for whatever you like…within reason, of course.”
– Barbra Streisand
“To master artist Garth Benton, and his two talented daughters, and with gratitude for your beautiful additon to our new home.”
– Rhonda “Mann” Flemming
Clientele
(Partial List)
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hope
Pres. and Mrs. Gerald Ford
Ms. Barbra Streisand
Mr. Sidney Sheldon
HRH Prince Saud Al Faisal
Ms. Carol Burnett
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Wolper
Ms. Jaclyn Smith
The J.Paul Getty Museum
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum
Mr. Danny Kaye
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Singleton
Mr. And Mrs. Mickey Rudin
Mr. Dean Martin
Mr. Hugh Hefner
Fluor Corporation
Ralph M. Parsons Company
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Firestone
The Beverly Hilton Hotel
Squaw Valley Inn
Mr. Richard Cohen
Lily and Richard Zanuck
Mr. and Mrs. George Doheny
Princess of Iran
Ms. Polly Bergen
Mrs. Walt Disney
Ms. Pamela Mason
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Knight
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Spelling
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Douglas
Mr. Jerry Magnin
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maguire
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick
Ms. Danielle Steel
Mr. David Nutt, Esq.
http://www.garthbenton.com/gallery/commercial/
Poor Baby Bree is really Bree Benton, 35 and a newcomer to cabaret. But her arresting characterization—unbroken for the length of her show—is worthy of a small theater. She drifts into view, worldly goods slung over her shoulder, and then, through vintage recitations and songs of woe, she recalls every defeated wretch who traipsed through early-20th-century America, looking for home and hanging on by a thread. Opening her bag, she pulls out her “babies”—antique dolls to whom she sings. Is she insane or just lonesome? Benton draws her laments from tattered sheet music and acoustic 78s; her voice is the frail warble heard on those tinny recordings, her face the portrait of despair immortalized by Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish and other silent-era waifs.
Learning of Benton’s incongruous family connection—she’s the stepdaughter of Richard Belzer, the cranky, politically minded comic actor—makes you all the more curious: What led her to adopt this antique persona? So hauntingly does she inhabit it that you may conclude that Bree Benton is not of this time, nor even this world.
Producers of the abandoned revival of Funny Girl struggled to find a new Fanny Brice, someone with the requisite comedic chops and rafter-shaking voice who could shake the ghost of Streisand. They might have done well to consider Bree Benton, who, in the persona of Poor Baby Bree, evokes the comic pathos of Brice and her contemporaries while putting her own indelible stamp on vaudeville revisited.
Since 2005, Benton has been performing in one-person shows as Poor Baby Bree, with musical director Franklin Bruno at piano—championing lost vaudeville songs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Baby Bree, a street-smart waif with stars in her eyes and “not a plug nickel” to her name, provides Benton with the ideal vehicle for her repertoire of vintage comic songs, ballads, and patter. In Benton’s skillful hands, tough-talkin’, sweet-singin’ Baby Bree is part Bette Davis, part Fanny Brice, part Judy Garland with a sprinkling of Olive Oyl—a sassy comedian one minute, a heart-breaking balladeer the next.
Baby Bree’s latest adventure, “I Am Going to Run Away,” is now playing at La MaMa through April 29. In this outing, Baby Bree runs away from home to join the circus—only to find herself lost in the big city, with only her dolls for company. This provides the frame for such forgotten standards as the rousing “Oh! You Circus Day” from 1912—a lively celebration of big-top glamour—to the poignant “Laugh! Clown! Laugh!, ”a 1928 ditty about the tragic life of a circus clown. For the most part, Benton breezily walks the tightrope between funny and sad, as epitomized in her charming interpretation of the 1932 novelty song “The Angel Cake Lady (And the Ginger Bread Man),” replete with a dancing marionette, gingerbread man, and larger-than-life doughnut. In some places, however, she is still finding her comedic feet. Not all the jokes land, particularly in the awkward first 10 minutes. (A crack about a wild bear eating sauerkraut crashed with a thud). Under Bruno’s musical direction, the band provides lively accompaniment, driving the momentum while providing rich period sound. Consulting director David Schweizer has built a solid framework—though sometimes the transitions drag—particularly the long, unnecessarily complicated and literal shift from the “woods” to the city. (The action stops to a halt as two stagehands dismantle trees and put up a garbage pail and crates).
Still, this is charming evening—a celebration of old songs whose cleverness and emotional truth still resonate—and a showcase for prodigious performer. In all, “I Am Going to Run Away” is a delightful introduction to the forgotten songs of a century ago.
Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away; LaMaMa Etc. Conceived and performed by Bree Benton; Consulting Director: Michael Schweizer; Musical Direction and Piano: Franklin Bruno; The Club at LaMaMa; 212-475-7710; http://www.lamama.org, http://www.poorbabybree.com
Christine Rosamond Was An Abandoned Child
Posted on January 26, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
I am going through a physical and psychological crisis. I saw my new Primary Care Provider who is un-abandoning me in the Field of Medicine. I have been suffering from Sleep Apnea for twenty years. I was tested, but could not wear a mask. I told Amada by cat is awakening me in the night because she is alarmed at my breathing. Classy woke me this morning by looking in my mouth. I tried to shew her away, but she was insistent to see what in my mouth that causing me harm. I assume I was snoring, then – stopped breathing. She has been distressed in the last two months. I felt utterly exhausted. I am very stressed about children being bombed and covered with their parents blood. I feel utterly helpless. I suspect Evil Zionist Fanatics have wanted to make Non-Jews feel this way in order to teach them a lesson, because this was done to them.
I was in therapy, seeing a therapist at the same clinic I went to yesterday. I have been examining family photos and seeing what my mother said about Christine and I.
“She followed you everywhere. You two were inseparable!
I have yet to see a photo of Vic or Rosemary holding Christine, or interacting with her. I noticed that in family group photos, she is always standing next to me. Christine boyfriends noticed how close we were. They did not like it, and wanted what we had. To Christine and I, this was normal. We grew up this way. People have tried to separate us, and caused riffs. That a court of law did this, and blessed outsiders, giving them permission to come between is – is an outrage! One ghostwriter tried to trick me into singing a non-discloser agreement, so I could not write about Christine. An ex-friend threated to steal our story. I dare not mention his name because that gives him a right to use my family history to defend himself.
Author Tom Snyder says in his bio that Vic took Christine out to his car and sexually molested her. Is that why SHE LOOKS THAT WAY? She looks comatose. Christine Rosamond Benton was seeing two therapist when she died. Did she show them family photos? That a court of law allows outsiders to make money off this – is pure evil! Executor, Sydney Morris said this had to be done to pay off creditors. The major creditor was, Larry Chazen, who was J.P. Getty’s financial advisor. H was also Vic Presco’s private lender in his loan business he worked out of his Lafayette home.
The Outsiders have accused me of trying to exploit Christine and the family abuse. My brother, Mark Presco led this vile claim. He got to read the rough draft of Tom Snyders’ evil bio where I am blamed for the suicide of my childhood when I did not give him the letter Christine wrote him, when she was sixteen. I was seventeen. Bill Arnold drove his car on the tracks, when he was eighteen and half. These are the three CHILD ARTISTS that were in Mark’s Dark World. He too is a Neo-Nazi.
I found another video of Rocky Point that I believe shows the opening of that narrow channel Christiane and Drew sat at the end of during an incidents of higher than normal tides, and strong winds.
I became a parent – at two? I am so weary.
John Presco
‘The Defender of Harvard’
EXTRA! After I posted the above, Gavin Newson was on TV. I wrote him years ago about the Outsiders. He did not reply. The Getty family hates what Outsiders did to them.
Copyright 2023
Art Justice
Posted on January 19, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Art Justice
A Series
by
John Presco
Copyright 2020
The Getty family, and other powerful families who have stock in PlumpJack, join forces to take on Robert Brevoort Buck, and the mysterious Mr. Green. The Gettys hire a Private Detective who claims he is the great grandson of Vincent Van Gough. Vincent begins to investigate the drowning at Rocky Point of the world famous artist known as Rosamond.
Return to the Getty Villa
Posted on December 31, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have taken steps to be awarded several grants. A year from now, I hope to have my own room at the Getty Villa where I am allowed to roam freely admiring the art of my ex-brother-in-law, Garth Benton, and working on my paper and historic masterpiece………..
‘The Doomsday Prophecies of Wealthy Men’
I will be wearing the best headset money can buy with a endless soundtrack from the DaVinci Code, the Phantom of the Opera, and the best of Leonard Cohen. Young scholars will turn their heads as I pass them in halls.
“May the force be with you Professor Obi-Wan Kenobi!”
“Have you saved our planet yet, Obi-Wan?”
“He can’t hear you. He lives in his own world.”
I have also taken steps to receive a grant from the Paul Mellon foundation. Paul is in my rosy family tree via Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and Warner. I introduced the Pre-Raphaelites to Christine Rosamond Benton. We are ‘The Last Pre-Raphaelites’.
I just made an offer to be Drew Benton’s Mentor. I can show her how to be a scholar in a year. Above is her mother at the Getty Mansion in New York.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
My Art Dynasty
Posted on December 30, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
John Paul Getty III with his mother at Rome’s Police Headquarters. Eldest of the four children of John Paul Getty, Jr. and Abigail Harris (L), and grandson of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, he was kidnapped in Rome on 10 July 1973 and released on 15 December 1973, shortly after a ransom was paid by his grandfather, after his abductors had cut off one of his ear. (Photo by Vittoriano Rastelli/Corbis via Getty Images)
The Getty Family Tree
Posted on June 20, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Gordon Getty and Gavin Newsom attend an event benefiting the UCSF Childrens Hospital in 2010. (Drew Altizer)
Here, is the Gavin Newsom connection to the Getty and Pelosi family;
You will find a genealogy that shows Michael Wilding, saying “Liz Taylor’s son” – and that’s it! Was this deliberate, or, are folks plain stupid? The Carl Janke family, who founded Belmont, are in the Getty tree. Founders of a swank city is a feather in the Getty cap. Two Gettys were Anglophiles. One was married to the actress, Talitha Getty, who I place next to Liz – and all the actors in her Rosy tree.
John Presco
Aileen Getty (born 1959), daughter with Abigail Harris. Married Christopher Wilding (son of actors Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding),
Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone Getty (born 1968), son with Talitha Pol. Married to Jessica Kelly, three children.
The Getty family of the United States identify with George Franklin Getty and his son Jean Paul Getty as their patriarchs. In the 20th century they were heavily involved in the petroleum industry. The Getty family is of Scots-Irish ancestry from their patrilineal lineage, their ancestors having immigrated to North America from Cullavmor, County Londonderry, Ireland.[1] Several members of the Getty family have lived in England, including Sir Paul Getty who took British citizenship.
George Getty (1855–1930) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 1904. He was married with one son, a daughter having died in infancy in a typhoid epidemic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lent his son Jean Paul money to invest in oil wells and in 1916, George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company, later to become Getty Oil.
Family members[edit]
The family members include:[2]
- George Getty (1855–1930), American lawyer, married Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher (1853–1941)
- J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), wealthy American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil, married 5 times and had 5 sons.
1. George Franklin Getty II (1924–1973), by first wife Jeanette Demont (1904–1986). George first married Gloria Gordon in 1951 and they divorced in 1967. George secondly married Jacqueline (Manewal) Riordan in 1971. Three daughters.[3]
From his second wife, Allene Gladys Ashby (1909–1970), he never had children.2. Jean Ronald Getty (1929–2009), by third wife Adolphine Helmle (1910–2009). Married Karin Seibl in 1964.
- Christopher Ronald Getty (born 1965) married Pia Miller in 1992, four children.
- Isabel Getty (born 1993)
3. Sir Paul Getty (1932–2003), (born Eugene Paul Getty, also known as John Paul Getty II), by fourth wife Ann Rork (1908–1988). Married Abigail Harris in 1956 and divorced in 1964, married Talitha Pol in 1966, Pol died 1971, married Victoria Holdsworth in 1994.[4]
- John Paul Getty III (1956–2011), (born Eugene Paul Getty, Jr.) son with Abigail Harris. Married Gisela Martine Zacher in 1974.
- Anna Getty (born 1972), daughter of Gisela Zacher, adopted daughter of John Paul Getty III.[5]
- Balthazar Getty (born 1975, as Paul Balthazar Getty), American actor, son of John Paul Getty III, married Rosetta Millington in 2000, four children.
- Cassius Getty (born 2000)
- Grace Getty (born 2001)
- Violet Getty (born 2003)
- June Getty (born 2007)
- Aileen Getty (born 1959), daughter with Abigail Harris. Married Christopher Wilding (son of actors Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding), married Bartolomeo Ruspoli (son of Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri), two children.
- Mark Getty (born 1960, as Mark Harris Getty), founder of Getty Images, son with Abigail Harris. Married Domitilla Harding in 1982, three children.
- Alexander Parsifal Getty, married Tatum Yount in 2012.
- Joseph Anselm Getty, married Sabine Ghanem in 2015, two children.
- Ariadne Getty (born 1962), daughter with Abigail Harris. Married Justin Williams.
- Nats Getty (born 1992), married Gigi Gorgeous in 2019.
- August Williams (born 1994), fashion designer
- Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone Getty (born 1968), son with Talitha Pol. Married to Jessica Kelly, three children.
4. Gordon Peter Getty (born 1933), by fourth wife Ann Rork. Married Ann Gilbert in 1964, Gilbert died 2020,[6] four children (and three others with Cynthia Beck).
- Gordon Peter Getty, Jr. (born 1965), married Shannon Bavaro in 2016.
- William Paul Getty (born 1970), married Vanessa Jarman in 1999.[7]
- Andrew Rork Getty (1967–2015)[8]
- John Gilbert Getty (1968–2020)
- Ivy Love Getty (born 1994), daughter with Alyssa Boothby. Married Tobias Engel in 2021.
5. Timothy Christopher Ware Getty (1946–1958), by fifth wife Louise Dudley Lynch (1913–2017).
Wilson Family of Windsor Castle →
Elizabeth Taylor In Bond’s London
Posted on November 28, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Two days ago, I discovered my kindred, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, made an album with John Barry who composed a James Bond theme. Liz is on the cover and recites a poem by Woodsworth. She also recites Pitt’s famous defense of America, and, the forming of a lasting bond. This renders Liz my ultimate muse. I dismiss the others for lack of enthusiasm. Liz created a Artistic Dynasty via Marriage Certificates. The art collector, Paul Melon, is in the Rosamond Family Tree, due to Liz’s marriage to John Warner. Her son, Christopher Wilding, married Aileen Getty, and thus is kin to Ian Fleming, who wanted Richard Burton to play Bond in the first movie.
This post is under construction. I have to sort out these videos. The first two introduced a powerful woman in the word Ian Fleming created. Music is very key to setting the mood and theme. The maker of the new Bond movie spent millions – struggling!
John Presco
“”I am looking for descendants of Philip Rosemond and Moses Morton Rosemond
who lived in Guernsey County, OH in the mid-1800s. This family descended from a James Rosemond who lived in County Leitrim, Ireland in the early 1700s. Other members of this same family settled in Lanark, Ontario, Canada.The southern Rosamond family is also said to be descended from this same family, as are the Rosamond families in Australia and New Zealand. I am trying to tie all the branches of the family together. The information on
the family in Guernsey County, OH is shown below. I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has any information regarding this family.”
http://www.timesreporter.com/news/20160214/local-history-century-old-home-has-colorful-history
“A famous descendant of this line of the Rosamond family is the artist Christine Rosamond who signed her paintings simply as Rosamond. Christine was actually born Christine Rosamond Presco. Her mother’s maiden name was Rosemary Rosamond, the daughter of the writer Royal Rosamond.”
Christine and Elizabeth can trace their roots to the Ozark Mountains in Missouri where my grandfather, Frank Wesley Rosamond lived, and where he wrote several novels, short stories, and poems that appeared in Otto Rayburn’s magazine ‘Arcadian Life’. Royal Reuben Rosamond (Frank’s pen name) founded his own publishing company, Gem Publishing. In 1997 I founded Royal Rosamond Press Co. that is listed in Lane County Oregon as a publishing company. I am the President of my own newspaper.
“Mr. and Mrs. Sam S. Warmbrodt had moved by this time to the Ozark regions of Missouri because of his health.”
Elizabeth Taylor’s father owned several galleries. Elizabeth Mary Rosemond Taylor’s sister, Mabel Rosemond, married Howard Young, a art dealer who purchased European Art for American Oil Tycoons he often played poker with.
Mrs. E. M. Taylor’s sister (Mabel Rosemond) had married Howard Young, a famous artist who had galleries in St. Louis, then New York, and London.
The war was devastating Europe in 1939 and found Francis and Sara Southern Taylor, both American nationals, running an art gallery in England for Francis’ multimillionaire uncle, Howard Young, a well-known dealer with an important gallery in New York. To avoid the growing conflict, Francis Taylor sent his wife and two children home to America while he remained behind to close out his uncle’s business. They visited briefly in Arkansas City before going to Pacific Palisades, near Hollywood where the Warmbrodt family was then living. In a few weeks Howard joined his family and opened his own art gallery in Los Angeles.”
Christine Rosamond Presco was discovered and promoted by Ira Cohen, of Ira Roberts Art Gallery on Lacienaga in Los Angeles. Christine married Garth Benton, the cousin of the famous artist, Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1986 she became partners with Lawrence Chazen in the Crossroads Arty Gallery in Carmel. This was the first Rosamond gallery. Chazen was a financial advisor of J.Paul Getty, and was a partner in the Plump/Jack resturant chain, along with the Nancy Pelosi family, and ex-mayor of San Francsico, Gavin Newsom. The Getty family amassed one of the largest art collections in the world. The Getty Museum overlooks the City of Angels. Garth Benton and my niece, Shannon Benton Sidel rendered the beautiful murals found in the Getty Villa. Chazen is a CEO of Noble Oil who will restart the drilling for black gold in the Gulf.
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