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Benny Andrews was from Plainview, Georgia. He received his formal artistic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and then moved to New York, New York, in 1958. Andrews died on November 10, 2006 in Brooklyn, New York. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of Benny Andrews art.
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"New York Cafe" Benny Andrews, 1966 African-American Social Realist Work
By Benny Andrews
Located in New York, NY
Benny Andrews
New York Cafe, 1966
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Lithograph on wove paper
Image 10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches
Sheet 13 x 18 inches
Edition 201/250
Ben...
Category
1960s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Composition, Everything That Rises Must Converge
By Benny Andrews
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Everything That Rises Must Converge, 2005. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, under the direction of Peter Pettengill, Hinsdale, 2005. Excerpted from the folio, This edition of CCC examples of Everything That Rises Must Converge was printed on BFK Rives. Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari designed the typography, cast the Kis-Janson type in metal, set the type by hand and printed the text at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The six color etchings were printed by hand on BFK Rives by Peter Pettengill at Wingate Studio in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.
BENNY ANDREWS (1930-2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers. Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the Director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$5,596 Sale Price
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Composition, Everything That Rises Must Converge
By Benny Andrews
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Everything That Rises Must Converge, 2005. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, under the direction of Peter Pettengill, Hinsdale, 2005. Excerpted from the folio, This edition of CCC examples of Everything That Rises Must Converge was printed on BFK Rives. Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari designed the typography, cast the Kis-Janson type in metal, set the type by hand and printed the text at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The six color etchings were printed by hand on BFK Rives by Peter Pettengill at Wingate Studio in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.
BENNY ANDREWS (1930-2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers. Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the Director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$5,596 Sale Price
20% Off
Rollo
By Benny Andrews
Located in New York, NY
Benny Andrews was an African-American artist, activist and educator. Born in Plainview, Georgia, Andrews earned a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Foil
$7,500
Composition, Everything That Rises Must Converge
By Benny Andrews
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Everything That Rises Must Converge, 2005. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, under the direction of Peter Pettengill, Hinsdale, 2005. Excerpted from the folio, This edition of CCC examples of Everything That Rises Must Converge was printed on BFK Rives. Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari designed the typography, cast the Kis-Janson type in metal, set the type by hand and printed the text at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The six color etchings were printed by hand on BFK Rives by Peter Pettengill at Wingate Studio in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.
BENNY ANDREWS (1930-2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers. Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the Director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$5,596 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Everything That Rises Must Converge
By Benny Andrews
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Everything That Rises Must Converge, 2005. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; printed by Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, under the direction of Peter Pettengill, Hinsdale, 2005. Excerpted from the folio, This edition of CCC examples of Everything That Rises Must Converge was printed on BFK Rives. Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari designed the typography, cast the Kis-Janson type in metal, set the type by hand and printed the text at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The six color etchings were printed by hand on BFK Rives by Peter Pettengill at Wingate Studio in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.
BENNY ANDREWS (1930-2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers. Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the Director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$5,596 Sale Price
20% Off