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Karl Stanley Benjamin BIOGRAPHY
1925 Chicago, Illinois - 2012 Claremont, California. Known for: Modernist figure, hard edge, geometric imagery, teaching.
Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012. By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times. Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in... Read full biography
Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012. By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times. Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of... Read full biography
Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012. By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times. Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variations, has died. He was 86. Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Claremont, said his daughter Beth Marie Benjamin.... Read full biography
Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012. By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times. Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variations, has died. He was 86. Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Claremont, said his daughter Beth Marie Benjamin. Benjamin was a longtime resident of Claremont and a vital part of the college town's art community. After retiring from a 20-year teaching career in public elementary and middle schools, he was a professor and artist-in-residence at Pomona College... Read full biography
Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012. By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times. Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variations, has died. He was 86. Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Claremont, said his daughter Beth Marie Benjamin. Benjamin was a longtime resident of Claremont and a vital part of the college town's art community. After retiring from a 20-year teaching career in public elementary and middle schools, he was a professor and artist-in-residence at Pomona College from 1979 to 1994 and taught at Claremont Graduate University. Through most of those years he also p... Read full biography
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Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012
By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variations, has died. He was 86.
Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Claremont, said his daughter Beth Marie Benjamin
Benjamin was a longtime resident of Claremont and a vital part of the college town's art community. After retiring from a 20-year teaching career in public elementary and middle schools, he was a professo...But wait, there's more...
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