Ben Benn (1884-1983) Russian/American

Ben Benn exalted in dozens of reviews by Hilton Kramer “as one of the best painters in the U.S.”, is the last important American artist of the “early moderns” to be fully recognized. Collected by over thirty museums, including the Metropolitan, Hirshhorn and Whitney, his work was part of the Whitney’s recreation of the l9l6 Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters held in l983.
Benn has had over twenty one man exhibitions and countless group shows. He is known for his strong joyful colors, thick brush strokes and energetic paintings. This gallery represents the artists’ estate from l904 to l972.


Exhibitions

1991 New York Historical Society
1987 Brooklyn Museum, Post-Impressionism, Group Show
1984 Fall Retrospective, Hammer Gallery, New York, NY
1983 'Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters of 1916' Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1982 Branchville Soho Gallery, Wilton, CT
1966 Babcock Gallery (solo)
1965 The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo)
1962 'New Directions in American Art' Friends of the Whitney Museum Traveling Exhibition
1957 MOMA Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1956 Musée Contini, Marseilles, France
1953 Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
1951 National Exhibition, Knoxville Art Center, Knoxville, TN
1950 'American Painting Today' Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1935 'Abstract Painting in America' Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1934 'Self-Portraits of Living American Artists' Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1933 'American Sources of Modern Art' Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY