Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Gershon Benjamin
"Jewel"

Circa 1947

About the Item

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. Dedicated to an artistic expression that was personal and honest, Benjamin believed: "To feel is to know and to know is to feel; all my paintings represent that through color, line, and subject." Born in Romania, Gershon Benjamin moved with his family to Montreal, Canada in 1891. He began studying art when he was ten, taking classes at the Council of Arts and Manufacturers of the Province of Quebec. Among his teachers was the prominent Edmond Dyonnet. In 1913, Benjamin was admitted to the Royal Canadian Academy, where he was taught and encouraged by William Brymner, who was also president of the Academy. In 1923, Gershon Benjamin moved to New York, where he began working the night shift at the New York Sun's art department, and enrolled at the Art Students League. Among his teachers at the League were Joseph Pennell, from whom he learned engraving, and John Sloan, with whom he studied figural drawing. While in New York, Gershon Benjamin began to associate with a circle of progressive-minded artists that included Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Arshile Gorky as well as Raphael and Moses Soyer. The artists often painted together and critiqued each other's work. Benjamin was neither interested in commercial success nor in competing with other artists for notoriety. Although many of his artist friends became famous, Benjamin was content to simply paint, supported by his job at the New York Sun. It was due to this perspective that Benjamin’s life's work remained largely unknown and became highly sought-after. Benjamin is represented in many private collections, as well as in public collections including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Berkeley Heights Public Library; Drew University; Griffiths Art Center, St. Lawrence University; and Ulrich Museum of Art.
  • Creator:
    Gershon Benjamin (1899, American)
  • Creation Year:
    Circa 1947
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 41 in (104.14 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Lambertville, NJ
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: JOL110918002 1stDibs: LU3743579682
More From This SellerView All
  • "Lee J. Cobb #3"
    By Gershon Benjamin
    Located in Lambertville, NJ
    Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
    Category

    1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • "The Red Dress"
    By Joseph Newman
    Located in Lambertville, NJ
    Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Newman (1890 - 1979) Joseph Newman was born in New York City in 1890. He attended the Pratt Institute and the Adelphi College Art School, and served in the U.S. Army during WWW1. After the war, he married and traveled to Europe. He returned to New York in the mid 1920's, and with a group of contemporaries formed The Fifteen Gallery in Manhattan. Newman painted a broad variety of subjects including genre scenes, landscapes, figurative works, and equestrian subjects. He worked in various styles ranging from academic realism to a looser, post-impressionist approach, and is best known for colorful, animated genre scenes painted in and around Rockport Harbor and as far west as Taos, New Mexico. He exhibited frequently at the Brooklyn Museum, The National Academy, The Carnegie Institute, The Whitney and The Society of Independent Artists. He was a member of the L.C. Tiffany Foundation, The Salmagundi Club, Rockport Art Association, and the American Watercolor Society. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Newark Museum, the Boston Library...
    Category

    20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • "Tommy"
    By Gershon Benjamin
    Located in Lambertville, NJ
    Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
    Category

    1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Board, Oil

  • "Rushelle in the Garden"
    By Gershon Benjamin
    Located in Lambertville, NJ
    Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
    Category

    1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Masonite

  • "Paula"
    By Gershon Benjamin
    Located in Lambertville, NJ
    Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
    Category

    1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Board, Oil

  • "Theresa Thompson"
    By Gershon Benjamin
    Located in Lambertville, NJ
    Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
    Category

    1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Masonite

You May Also Like
  • Portrait of Young Girl - Oil on Canvas by Pietro Alimonti - 1969
    Located in Roma, IT
    Portrait of Young Girl is an artwork realized by Pietro Alimonti, 1969. Oil on Canvas. 49 x 39 cm ; 88 x 68 cm. Handsigned in the lower left margin. Good conditions!
    Category

    1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • 20th Century French Portrait of Auburn Hair Young Lady Large Oil Painting
    Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
    The Auburn Haired lady by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes signed below oil on board, unframed board: 20 x 12 inches provenance: the artists e...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • 20th Century Portrait of Young Lady Reading a Book large oil painting
    Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
    Lady Reading by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below oil on board, unframed board: 29 x 24 inches provenance: the artists estate, south of France condition: very good an...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • 1900's French Oil Painting Impressionist Portrait Sketch Portrait Young Lady
    Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
    Portrait of Young Lady French School, early 1900's period oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 26 x 21 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: very good and sound condition
    Category

    Early 1900s Modern Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Mid 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Lady in Gondola Venice Signed Painting
    Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
    Lady in Gondola, Venice French/ Italian School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 39.5 x 28.75 inches provenance: private collection, Provence c...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Portrait of a Young Woman - Modernist Female Portrait Oil by Alfredo Guttero
    Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
    Stunning signed and dated modernist oil on canvas by Argentinian painter Alfredo Guttero. The work depicts a portrait of a young Argentinian woman. It is beautifully and the brush strokes make it almost pointillist like. This work has come from the collection of the esteemed Jewish art collector Gaston Prosper Levy and was gifted top him by the painter. Prosper Levy held one of the most important collections of modern French art - many of the works were taken by the Nazis from his home in France in 1940. This work has been assessed by the Art Loss Register and is not recorded on their database. Signature: Signed, dedicated and dated 1918 upper right Dimensions: Framed: 29"x24.5 Unframed: 26"x21.5" Provenance: Original exhibition number to frame The collection of Gaston Prosper Levy Alfredo Nicolás Guttero was born in Buenos Aires on May 26, 1882. He studies music as a child and from an early age he shows his drawing abilities. He starts a law career which he quits two years later to start painting full time. Ernesto de la Cárcova and Martín Malharro encourage him towards this change and, in 1904 he gets a scholarship to travel to France to further his work. His scholarship only lasted a year, but with his family’s help and his work related to decorative art, he manages to stay in Paris until 1917, where he studies under Maurice Denis. He moves to Spain, and towards 1917, he studies in Madrid and La Coruña. Then he moves to Segovia in 1918. In this occasion he takes parts in a collective exhibition of Argentine painters and sculptors, together with artists such as Fray Guillermo Butler and Pablo Curatella Manes, among others. After his passing through Germany, Austria and Italy, in 1925 he settles in Genova where he holds an exhibition of his entire artistic production to date. After 23 years in Europe, on September 26, 1927, Guttero arrives in Buenos Aires, and on October 20, he holds an exhibit at Asociación Amigos del Arte. That same year, the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes acquires for the Museo Nacional his piece: Mujeres indolentes (Indolent women). A week later he takes part in the Feria del Boliche de Arte invited by Leonardo Estarico and Atalaya. Upon his return from Genova, he continues his investigation and development of the pictorial techniques denominated by him as “cooked plaster”, a technical procedure based on a paste of plaster with pigments mixed in with glue that the artist generally applied mounted on wooden supports. As of this moment, Guttero starts in Buenos Aies an intensive array of exhibits and other activities which make a big impact on the local cultural scene, apart from continuing with his personal art production. Between 1927 and 1932, the year of his sudden death, Alfredo Guttero takes part, among other projects, in the “3ª Exposición Comunal de Artes Aplicadas e Industriales 1927- 1928”, where he is awarded the Grand Prize in the Sección Pintura Decorativa; and the “X Salón de Otoño de Rosario” (1928) where he gets the Gold Medal for the Figure category; he presents works in the exhibits organized by Ateneo Popular de la Boca (1928); “XVIII Salón Nacional“ (1929) and is awarded the Second Municipal Prize for his work Playa (Beach). In 1929, he organizes the “Nuevo Salón” in Buenos Aires, Rosario and La Plata. He presents his work at the “XIX Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes” where he gets the First Prize in painting with his work Feria (Street market); in September of that same year he inaugurates his fourth individual exhibition at Amigos del Arte and participates in the selection of paintings which will appear in post cards that this institution would print eventually. In 1930 he is named artistic advisor of the Asociación Wagneriana and director of its Plastic Arts Section. That same year he organizes the “Salón de Pintores Modernos. Primer Grupo” in Buenos Aires; exhibits at Amigos del Arte, at the “Salón de Pintores y Escultores Modernos” and at show rooms in Rosario and Santa Fe. In January, 1931 he takes part in the “First Baltimore Pan-American Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings” and is awarded the Museum of Art Award with his piece Anunciación (Announcement), which he later donates to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires. That same year he organizes exhibits of Miguel Carlos Victorica and Demetrio Urruchúa in Amigos del Arte and, in May, Guttero presents his work at the Salón Centenario de Montevideo, “Primer Grupo Argentino de Pintores Modernos”. In June he directs together with Falcini, courses on Plastic Art and works on stage scenery for the Colón Theater. Also in 1931, he organizes the “Salón de Pintores Modernos” in Amigos del Arte and takes part at the Salón Nacional, being awarded the Eduardo Sívori Prize. On April 15, 1932 they open together with Pedro Domínguez Neira, Raquel Forner and Alfredo Bigatti the Cursos Libres de Arte Plástico (Free plastic art courses). That same year Guttero is awarded the First Municipal Prize for his work Oda (Ode). In November, he is invited to take part in the “Salón de Arte del Cincuentenario de La Plata” and, on December 1, he dies in Buenos Aires at the age of 50. The following year, between October and November, the Dirección Nacional de Bellas Artes organizes...
    Category

    1910s Modern Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

Recently Viewed

View All