Small Planes – Blue, Pink, White, 1957

Catalog #706

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB '57
Date: 1957
36 x 48 in.
1957_small_planes-blue
Provenance:

Collection of Paul Schoor (acquired directly from the artist, 1981);
Trust of Gerald E. Buck;
The Buck Collection at the UCI Jack and Shanaz Langston Institute and Museum of California Art, Irvine, California.

Exhibition History:
References:

Knight, Christopher. “Smack in the Middle.” Los Angeles Times, 10 October 2007, sec. E, p. E1, E6-7.

Finkel, Jori. “Karl Benjamin’s Colorful Resurgence.” The New York Times, 7 October 2007, sec. Art, p. 30.

Winn, Steven. “Appeal of ‘50s Cool is imply Fine Today.” San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2008, sec. E, p. E1.

Spiegelman, Willard. “What Postwar California Gave to Art, Design and Culture.” The Wall Street Journal, 4 March 2009, sec. D, p. D4.

Muchnic, Suzanne. “Karl Benjamin, 1925-2012. Painter Reveled in Color.” Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2012, sec. AA, p. AA1, AA5.

Cook, Greg. “Hearts of Glass – California Cool at the Addison Gallery.” The Boston Phoenix, 20 March 2008. Sec. Boston.