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  Karl Benjamin, “Geo-metricized figure”, Oil on canvas 1954

  KARL BENJAMIN (1925-2012) USA

  Geometricized figure 1954

  Oil on canvas

  Signed: Benjamin 54 (lower left)

  For more information see: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Vol. 1 to 10, E. Bénézit (Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1976).

  Canvas: H: 17″ x W: 6″

  Framed: H: 24 1/2″ x W: 13 1/2″

   

  Karl Benjamin was born in Chicago, IL in 1925. He received his BA from the University of Redlands, CA and his MFA at Claremont Graduate School, CA. Benjamin belonged to the Hard Edge group of West Coast painters led by John McLaughlin during the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Visual Arts in both 1983 and 1989. His work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions and is included in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, Israel; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others. For many years, Benjamin taught painting at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School, and currently is Professor Emeritus. He lived in Claremont, CA.

   

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  Edmund F. Ward “The Swimming Hole” Oil on canvas c. 1930

  EDMUND F. WARD (b. 1892 – 1991) USA

  “The Swimming Hole”   c. 1930

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: signed Edm. F. Ward (lower right); partial labels verso:Westchester Arts and Crafts Guild; 4 Edmund F. Ward

  For more information on the artist see: Who Was Who in American Art,Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 658.

  Canvas H: 18” x W: 24”

  Framed H: 27 9/16” x W: 33 9/16”

  Price: $14,000

  Ward studied at the Arts Student’s League with Edward Dufner, George Bridgeman, and Thomas Fogarty. He was an illustrator for several national magazines and books. In 1925, Ward exhibited an award winning work at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is perhaps best known for his WPA mural in the Federal Building, White Plains, New York.

   

   

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  György Kepes, Abstraction, Gelatin silver print, 1942

  GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001) Hungary/USA

  Abstraction 1942

  Silver gelatin print

  Signed: 9 (in a circle, on back); Gyorgy Kepes 1942 (in ink on back)

  György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1947 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

  Framed size: H: 29 3/16” x W: 25 ¼”

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  Arrigo Varettoni de Molin, “Passaic Rooftops”, Oil on canvas 1932

  ARRIGO VARETTONI DE MOLIN (1902-1985)

  Passaic Rooftops 1932

  Oil on canvas

  Signed: A V de Molin ’32

  Listed: Who’s Who in America, Series II, no. 11 (November 1, 1941) p. 6.

  Exhibited: New Jersey State Annual, Montclair Art Museum, 1934

  Canvas: H: 39” x W: 35”