Untitled, 1957

Catalog #620

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower right - KB '57
Date: 1957
20 x 50 1/8 in.
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Provenance:

Collection of Mrs. William Paxton Cary, San Diego, California (acquired directly from the artist, 1957);
San Diego Museum of Art, California (gift of the above, 1958).

Exhibition History:

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

Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, Pacific Cities Loan Exhibition, April 1-30, 1971.

Washington, D.C., The Vice President's House, 1980.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Art of the United States from the San Diego Museum of Art, November 6, 2010 – February 9, 2011.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Experiments in Abstraction, November 26, 2011 – February 19, 2012.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Modern Art: Selected Highlights, October 20, 2012 – June 30, 2013.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Otra Vez Modern and Contemporary, March 30 – July 14, 2013.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, American Art of the 20th Century, March 28 – August 16, 2014.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Art of the 20th Century, March 28 – August 16, 2015.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, The Art of Music, September 26, 2015 – February 7, 2016.

San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, american minimal, March 6 – June 1, 2025.

References:

Coleman, Patrick, et al. The Art of Music. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2015, reproduced in color on pages 272-273.

Pacific Cities Loan Exhibition. Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, April 1971.

Humbelt, Claudine. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970. Vol. 1, Milan: Skira, 2003, p. 470, 479, 509.

Credit:
Image courtesy of the San Diego Museum of Art.