Large Planes, 1957

Catalog #650

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower left - KB '57
Date: 1957
40 x 50 in.
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Provenance:

Estate of Frank Woods (acquired directly from the artist);
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska (gift of the above, 1981).

Exhibition History:

Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Paintings by Karl Benjamin: Abstract Classicism, December 7, 1958 – January 4, 1959.

Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden (now Sheldon Museum of Art), The Sheldon Achievement, May 4 – June 11, 1982.

Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, October 5, 2012 – January 20, 2013.

References:

Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy, ed. The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988, reproduced in color on page 213.

Veneciano, Jorge Daniel, ed. The Geometric Unconscious. 1st edition. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2012, plate 10, reproduced in color on page 27. 

Credit:
Image courtesy of the Sheldon Museum of Art.