Ben Benn, Boy With Doves, Painting

Description

Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Boy with Doves
Year: 1946
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated … more Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: Boy with Doves
Year: 1946
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.44 cm)

Benn Benn was a pioneer American modernist whose independent style defied stylistic classification. Despite excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, Benn “seems always to have been a ‘subject’ painter. Considering this, it is remarkable that he remained visible at all during the 50’s and early 60’s, when prejudice against the representational amounted nearly to a proscription of it.”(1) Benn’s prominence in the art world over 6 decades was reaffirmed at a 90th birthday show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1974. less