#7, 1972

Catalog #6

oil on canvas
Signature: signed on verso
Date: 1972
30 x 40 in.
lsfa-24
Provenance:

Estate of the Artist.

Exhibition History:

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

Santa Fe, New Mexico, David Richard Gallery, Southern California Painting, the 1970s: Painting Per Se, July 1 – 31, 2011.

Rancho Cucamonga, California, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, The Hard-Edged Genius of Karl Benjamin: Selections from the Family Collection, October 11, 2025 – January 11, 2026.

References:

Hazlitt, Gordon J. "Rigid grids and freedom." ARTnews, 1975, reproduced in black and white on page 86.

Hickey, Dave, et al. Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2007, plate 20, reproduced in color on page 51.

Melrod, George. “Hard-Edge, Hard-Won: Karl Benjamin.” Art Ltd. (November 2007), reproduced in color on page 34.

Frank, Peter, et al. Southern California Painting, the 1970s: Painting Per Se. Santa Fe: David Richard Gallery, 2011, reproduced in color on page 32.