#7, 1966

Catalog #197

oil on canvas
Date: 1966
40 x 60 in.
8012059
Provenance:

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Busemann, Santa Ynez, California;
[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
[Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California];
Private Collection (acquired directly from the above, 2016).

Exhibition History:

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Karl Benjamin, June 11 – July 14, 1968.

West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin, September 29 – December 22, 2007.

Oceanside, California, Oceanside Museum of Art, The Vibrant Edge: Paintings of Karl Benjamin from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, July 20 – October 19, 2008.

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969, February 11 – May 6, 2012.

References:

Hickey, Dave, et al. Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2007, plate 16, reproduced in color on page 49.

Pincus, Robert L. “Patterns of Excellence.” San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 August 2008, reproduced in color on page 24.

Kienholz, Lyn, Elizabeta Betinski, and Corinne Nelson. L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists before 1980. Los Angeles: The California/International Arts Foundation, 2010, reproduced in color on page 57.

Biller, Steven. “Masters of Modernism – The Accidental Modernist.” Palm Springs Life (February 2009).

Joyce, Julie, et al. Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969. Santa Monica: Ram Publications, 2012, reproduced in color on page 111.