Red, Blue, Pink, 1958
Catalog #76
[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection (acquired directly from the above, 2014).
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. 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.
“Dance the Line Paintings by Karl Benjamin (Slideshow).” The New York Time, 7 October 2007.
“Hidden Gems of American Abstraction.” Forbes Collector, p. 2.
Finkel, Jori. “Karl Benjamin’s Colorful Resurgence.” The New York Times, 7 October 2007, sec. Art, p. 30.
Bonetti, David. “Midcentury Modern.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19 September 2008, sec. Go, p.24.
Bergeron, Chris. “Chill Out – Addison Gallery Exhibit Examines ‘Birth of the Cool.’” The MetroWest Daily News, 13 April 2008, sec. News p. C1, C11.
Armstrong, Elizabeth, et al. Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2007, reproduced in color on page 47.