Interlocking Forms (IF) Thalo Green, Raw Umber, Mars Yellow, 1958
Catalog #46
[Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California];
Private Collection (acquired directly from the above, 1989);
[Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California];
Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Chicago, Illinois (acquired directly from the above, 2007).
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, John McLaughlin, September – October 1959.
San Francisco, California, Modernism Gallery, Four Abstract Classicists: West Coast Hard Edge, March 4 – April 24, 1993.
West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin, September 29 – December 22, 2007.
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.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ackland Art Museum, Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, September 21, 2008 – January 4, 2009.
Rockford, Illinois, Rockford Art Museum, Paintings from the Thoma Collection, October 11, 2019 – January 26, 2020.
Hickey, Dave, et al. Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2007, reproduced in color on page 21.
Langsner, Jules, et al. Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, John McLaughlin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1959.
Image courtesy of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, photo by Jamie Stukenberg.