Ben Cameron
American, 1940-2021
Ben Cameron was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His education followed his broad spectrum of interests in the arts. His first degree was from St. Louis University in 1962 in Speech and Dramatic Art. Then he studied fashion at Traphagen School of Fashion in New York in 1964. As he turned more toward visual art, he studied Studio Art and Art History at Washington University in St. Louis from 1963-65. He earned his MA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1966 and then followed his professor to The University of Cincinnati for the MFA Painting in 1967. Cameron began his teaching career in Fashion and Art at Stephens College,Columbia, Missouri, then moved on to the University of Missouri, straddling the same two fields. In 1974 he began his long tenure in the Art Department at Columbia College, retiring in 2015. He especially enjoyed his turn at running the Larson Gallery. His classrooms usually had the appearance of a combination of a giant still life with examples of work and source material for art. Between the above dates he packed in a career teaching the arts and prolific production of paintings, prints, and drawings.
Cameron’s unique style and voice as a painter became evident with a series of highly-expressive, representational scenes painted large scale in the mid to late 1960s. These works contain a very broad palette with numerous colors forming every area of light and shadow. Still lifes with the same, highly-energetic color work and thick paint application are interspersed with figurative works of this era. Later paintings focus on singular subjects and bold, solid background fields.(Biography provided by Sager Reeves Gallery)
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Bali Landscape
Located in Columbia, MO
Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Ben Cameron
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sunset Blvd
Located in Columbia, MO
Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Ben Cameron
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Intaglio
Bali
Located in Columbia, MO
Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Ben Cameron
Materials
Watercolor
Sunset Boulevard
Located in Columbia, MO
Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Ben Cameron
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Intaglio
Monte Carlo
Located in Columbia, MO
Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Ben Cameron
Materials
Watercolor
Virginia Woolf
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
Virginia Woolf
Mixed media on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Framed: 26.5 x 22.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ben Cameron
Materials
Oil
Sunset Boulevard
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
Sunset Boulevard
Mixed media on canvas
30 x 38 inches
Framed: 30.5 x 38.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ben Cameron
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Roommates
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
Roommates
c. 1960s
Oil on canvas
71.25 x 63.25 inches
Framed: 72 x 64 inches
Category
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Materials
Oil
Carnival
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
Carnival
1965-67
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 61.5 inches
Framed: 46.25 x 62.25 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ben Cameron
Materials
Oil
Three Women (Interior)
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
Three Women (Interior)
1967-68
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 53.75 inches
Framed: 72.25 x 58.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ben Cameron
Materials
Oil
Queen
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
The Queen
Oil on canvas
48 x 40 inches
Framed: 48.75 x 40.75 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ben Cameron
Materials
Oil
Artist's Interior
Located in Columbia, MO
BEN CAMERON
Artist’s Interior
c. 1965
Oil on canvas
41.75 x 28.25 inches
Framed: 43 x 29.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ben Cameron
Materials
Oil
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