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Ben NorrisCoronation1982
1982
$9,000
£6,923.40
€8,036.10
CA$12,692.15
A$14,217.34
CHF 7,467.46
MX$172,878.30
NOK 94,562.45
SEK 89,765.19
DKK 59,976.51
About the Item
Signed and dated top right: “Norris (c) 1982”. With label verso: “Ben Norris, 1982 / Coronation / watercolor, 52 x 31 1/4 inches”.
As a teacher, academic, and artist, Ben Norris had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and continued to master new stylistic methods throughout his career. While well known for his bold watercolors, Norris also became an accomplished printmaker, and experienced much success with his oil and acrylic paintings, as well as his collages. His varied work always seems to imbue a mystical or spiritual aspect, which Norris spoke of in a 1965 interview for Art in America:
“The act of painting is a combination of apprehension of the environment in which we live with the affirmation and the consolidation of the self within this setting. My home-grown Zen is hybridized from Max Ernst’s surrealism, a number of contacts with psychiatry (the healing priesthood of our time), and the Religious Society of Friends, called Quakers.”
- Creator:Ben Norris (1910 - 2006, American)
- Creation Year:1982
- Dimensions:Height: 62 in (157.48 cm)Width: 41.5 in (105.41 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Boston, MA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU397314957932
Ben Norris
Robert Benjamin Norris was born in 1910, in southern California, where he completed his undergraduate education, executed his first professional paintings and first exhibited to critical acclaim. Although he continued to paint for 20 years after retiring to New York City and Philadelphia, he may be best known in Hawaii, where he spent the highly prolific middle part of his professional career. Norris studied at Pomona College, Harvard and the Sorbonne, but supplemented his schooling by working directly with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Jean Charlot, Josef Albers and Max Ernst.
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