Yellow, Ochre, Umber, 1959

Catalog #950

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated lower left - KB '59
Date: 1959
62 x 42 in.
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Provenance:

[Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, California];
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California;
Thence by descent.

Exhibition History:

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersly, John McLaughlin, July 2 – 29, 1959. Also exhibited: 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, September 16 – October 18, 1959;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London;
Queen’s University, Belfast.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Purist Painting, January 15 – February 19, 1961.

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Five Footnotes to Modern Art History, January 17 – April 24, 1977.

Claremont, California, Claremont Museum of Art, A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin Paintings 1953-1995, April 15 – July 4, 2007.

References:

Langsner, Jules, et al. Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, John McLaughlin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1959, reproduced on page 14.

Knight, Christopher. “The Beauty of Geometry.” Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2007.

Pagel, David, et al. A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin Paintings 1953-1995. Claremont: Claremont Museum of Art, reproduced in color on page 20.