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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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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
Awards/Recognition
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Four Abstract Classicists, LA County Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art