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MODERNIST BEN-ZION /THE TEN O/C STILL LIFE 1930s-50s browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1960: item # 777169 Please refer to our stock # Ben-Zion when inquiring.
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| Ben-Zion Weinman was the son of a Polish cantor and composer, raised to be a rabbi, but emigrated to the United States in 1920. He was part of a group of New York artists called The Ten, including Mark Rothko, Joseph Solman and Adolph Gottlieb, who strived to create something new in art in the 1935. Critics immediately took notice and The New York Sun critic called him "the farthest along" of The Ten and an Art News reviewer called his work resounding and forceful. Ben-Zion's Biblical pieces were called the only profound works in modern art besides Chagall and Roualt. When New York's Jewish Museum opened in 1948, it was with a Ben-Zion show. Twice more he exhibited there, including a large 1959 retrospective. The Phillips Collection, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art own Ben-Zions. The prominent dealer Curt Valentin exhibited his work and published his remarkable Biblical etchings. When Abstract Expressionism became ascendant, Ben-Zion stopped showing at galleries because he considered all art as abstract expressionism. His style was representational based on the abstract. He died in 1987. Ben-Zion painted in oils and watercolors, etched, drew, sculpted in iron and wood, and even a few pieces of stained glass. He taught art at Cooper Union from 1943-50, Ball State University in the summer of 1956, and Union Iowa in the summer of 1959. This oil on canvas measures 30-1/4 x 14 inches, sight size, and 36-3/4 x 20-1/2 in a period gilt frame. Signed lower right and in excellent condition. | ||||||||||
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