Although he created an idealized world, his almost photo-realistic style was popular with rich art patrons.
They attempted to present the world from a child's perspective, or as writer Robert Morrow put it, "an idealized world of learning and play".
"We don't need to hear about an idealized world that never was as righteous or carefree as some would like to think."
He was creating an idealized world, a paradise of sensual delights.
Just as in the idealized world of good families and strong communities.
Or was he always the outsider, peering lovingly into an idealized world of which he could never be fully a part?
Only once does war intrude into the idealized world that Hitler tried to preserve in the art he collected.
The show was thrilling - a 20-minute extravaganza that conjured up an idealized world full of international travel and glamorous assignations.
It's why these sophisticates sneer at what they see as the idealized world of those old TV shows.
Benson was known for painting the idealized world, especially that of the leisure of New England.