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Benton Murdoch SpruanceOut of the City1930
1930
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Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904-1967). Out of the City, 1930 (FL #33) Ed. 28. Lithograph on wove paper, plate measures 9.75 x 12.25 inches. Signed in pencil lower right. Titled and numbered 27/28 lower left. Sheet is not glued.
Biography:
Birth place: Philadelphia, PA
Death place: Phila.
Addresses: Germantown, PA; Phila.
Profession: Lithographer, painter, educator
Studied: Univ. Penn. School FA; PAFA with D. Garber (Cresson traveling scholarship); G. Harding; R. Nuse; A. Lhote in Paris.
Exhibited: many nat. print exhs., 1929-65; Phila. Pr. Club,1929 (prize), 1932 (prize), 1929 (prize), 1941, 1953, 1956; WC Ann., 1937 (prize); WMAA, 1933-45; AIC, 1937-38, 1941; PAFA Ann., 1939-53 (gold medal 1946); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1941; Laguna Beach AA, 1943, 1944; Audubon Artists, 1947; LOC, 1948; Boston Printmakers, 1949; Phila. Art All., 1951; NAD, 1953, 1957, 1959; Am. Color Pr. Soc., 1954, 1960, 1961; SAGA, 1955, 1962; Calif. Etchers, 1959; Bay PM, 1959; Joslyn Mus. Art , 1954 (retrospective); Mt. Holyoke, 1954 (retrospective); Swarthmore, 1954 (retrospective); Woodmere Art Gal., Phila., 1960; Phila. Sketch Club, 1965 ( Medal for Distinguished Service to Art); Phila. Art All., 1965 (Medal of Achievement). Solos in numerous colleges, universities, galleries & museums nationally, 1954-65. Other awards & medals: Pennell medal, 1937; Eyre medal, 1939; Beck medal, 1946; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1950, 1963; hon. D.F.A., Phila. College of Art, 1962; PAFA Fellowship, 1964
Member: NA; SAGA; Phila. Pr. Club; Phila. Art All.; Am. Artists Congress.
Work: MoMA; WMAA; CI; LOC; NGA; PMA; SAM; PAFA; NYPL; AGA. Murals, Municipal Court Bldg., Phila.; Philadelphia House of Detention Chapel.
Comments: Positions: professor of fine art & chmn., Dept. of FA, Beaver College, Glenside, PA, 1932-60s; director, Graphic Art, Philadelphia College of Art; member, Philadelphia Art Commission.
- Creator:Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904 - 1967, American)
- Creation Year:1930
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Wilton Manors, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2452623392
Benton Murdoch Spruance
A pioneer in color lithography, Benton Spruance spent most of his life in Philadelphia, where he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and became one of the city’s leading artists. In the twenties and thirties Spruance was known for prints that one critic described as his “velvety urban scenes and ‘social conscious’ series,” which chronicled the life of ordinary men and women at work and play. However, Spruance was also a painter and draftsman who during this period took advantage of two Guggenheim fellowships to travel throughout the United States and Europe and sketch landscapes. In the forties Spruance began producing moody, psychologically charged lithographic portraits of women, followed by mystically tinged work, based on biblical passages, that became increasingly subtle and sculptural in effect. Despite the demand for his work (he produced more than 500 lithographs during his career), Spruance continued to teach. At the time of his death, he was chairman of the art department at Beaver College and had recently retired from the chairmanship of the printmaking department at Philadelphia College of Art.
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