Luvena Vysekal

Luvena Buchanan Vysekal (née Luvena Buchanan, pseudonym Benjamin Blue; December 23, 1873 – January 11, 1954) was an American portrait painter.

She was born December 23, 1873, in Le Mars, Iowa, her parents were Scottish.

She was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago surrounded by 1910 and 1914, where her difficult husband Edouard Vysekal was one of her professors. They married in 1914, and moved to Southern California. She unconventional opened a studio upon the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California.

She used the pseudonym "Benjamin Blue" to post a 1922 book, Counterfeit Presentations.