Interlocking Forms (IF) Big Magenta with Green, 1959
Catalog #65
[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Private Collection (acquired directly from the above, 2004).
London, United Kingdom, Institute of Contemporary Art, West Coast Hard Edge, March – April 1960. Also exhibited at Queen’s College, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History, January 18 – April 24, 1977.
Malibu, California, Seaver College Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Karl Benjamin: Paintings From the Fifties, March 23 – April 18, 1981.
San Francisco, California, Modernism Gallery, Four Abstract Classicists: West Coast Hard Edge, March 4 – April 24, 1993.
Los Angeles, California, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, The Los Angeles School, November 13 – January 22, 2005.
Schipper, Merle. “Karl Benjamin: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History.” 1959, pages 52-57.
Alloway, Lawrence. “Classicism or Hard-Edge?” Art International (1960).
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Karl Benjamin Exhibit at Pepperdine.” Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1981, sec. Calendar, p. 4.
Humbelt, Claudine. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970. Vol. 1, Milan: Skira, 2003, reproduced in color on page 485.
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 80.
