Black Pillars, 1957

Catalog #8

oil on canvas
Signature: signed and dated upper right - KB '57
Date: 1957
48 x 24 in.
7000558
Provenance:

[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection, Rochester, Michigan.

Exhibition History:

Los Angeles, California, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, November 8. 1996 - March 1, 1997.

Santa Ana, California, Orange County Museum of Art, Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, October 7, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Also exhibited:
Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, February 15 – April 13, 2008;
Oakland, California, Oakland Museum of California, May 17– August 17, 2008;
St. Louis, Missouri, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, September 19, 2008 – January 5, 2009;
Austin, Texas, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, February 22 – May 17, 2009.

Nelson, New Zealand, Woollaston Gallery at Woollaston Estates Winery, Formalist Visions - West by Far West - 1950-2000, August - November 2013.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965, January 10 - April 10, 2014.

References:

Karlstrom, Paul J., ed. On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Nelson, Harold B., et al. Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965, January 10 - April 10, 2004. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2004, page 23.

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Armstrong, Elizabeth, ed. Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2007, cover and p. 14-15.

The New York Times, 21 March 2008, sec. Weekend Arts, p. B23.

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Taylor, Robert. "'Cool' is reborn at Oakland Museum." Bay Area News Group, 23 May 2008, sec. B, p. B11-B12.

Bergeron, Chris. "Chill Out - Addison Gallery Exhibit Examines 'Birth of the Cool.'" The MetroWest Daily News, 13 April 2008, sec. News, p. C1, C11.

Bonetti, David. "LA 'Cool': Triumph of color, optimism - Exhibit looks at another American revolution, this one of art and design fueled by radical postwar changes." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 28 September 2008, sec. A&E, p. F1.

Woods II, Wes. "Claremont artist basks in satisfaction of painting." Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, 21 November 2008, sec. Local.

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Biller, Steven. "The Accidental Modernist." Palm Springs Life (February 2009), p. 67.

Ritchie, Judith. "Sharing Passion for Formalism." The Nelson Mail, 28 August 2013, sec. News, p. 13.