Using an innovative technique he called “rough collage,” Benny Andrews created vivid portraits of everyday people that mixed painting with pieces of clothing and other textural materials.
Andrews grew up in a family of sharecroppers in rural Georgia, his creativity nurtured by his father, who was a self-taught artist, and his mother, who believed in the importance of education. He was the first in his family to complete high school and attended Fort Valley State College on a 4-H Club scholarship. Andrews was limited by the lack of art courses available to him at Fort Valley, and in 1950 he enlisted in the Air Force and served in the Korean War. On the G.I. Bill, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). While fellow students focused on Abstract Expressionism, Andrews developed his own expressive style; one of his earliest portraits was of the janitors at SAIC. After he graduated in 1958, he moved to New York. Andrews’s first solo show was in 1960 at Paul Kessler Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Visibility and social justice were at the forefront of Benny Andrews’s paintings, which meditated on scenes of daily life, drawing on memories of the artist’s childhood in the South. His subjects included his family members as well as other artists, such as Alice Neel, Norman Lewis and Howardena Pindell.
A longtime educator, including for three decades at New York’s Queens College, Andrews avidly promoted opportunities for Black artists, such as cofounding with Clifford R. Joseph the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition in 1969, which advocated for inclusion in museum exhibitions. One of his final works —completed between 2004 and 2006 — was the Migrant Series in which he retraced the forced relocation of Indigenous people on the Trail of Tears, the Dust Bowl migration and the displacement of Hurricane Katrina survivors.
Andrews’s work has continued to garner acclaim after his death in 2006, with posthumous exhibitions including “Benny Andrews: Portraits, a Real Person Before the Eyes” at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York in 2020.
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Woman with Flowers
By Benny Andrews
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Benny Andrews, American (1930 - 2006) Title: Woman with Flowers Year: 1976 Medium: Oil and Collage on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. (and ...
Oil, Canvas
$2,320
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 1.19 in
Every blue reminds me of you - B.Schaumann Contemporary architectural Painting
By Barbara Schaumann
Located in DE
Barber Schaumann is a contemporary artist known for her vibrant, abstract interpretations of the female form. Her work combines bold colors with modern, geometric shapes, blending el...
Canvas, Oil
$6,614
H 39.38 in W 47.25 in D 1.97 in
Autumn - Contemporary Impressionistic Painting of a Landscape
By Frank Dekkers
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Frank Dekkers Autumn 100 x 120 cm (not framed) oil on canvas On the pictures we also show you the artist receiving the flowers on our opening of this exhibition september 3th 2023 in our gallery. On an other picture you see the artist talking with collectors who purchase one of his works and gallery owner René Renders talking with other visitors in front of the painting. We show these pictures to give you an idea of the size and sphere of the paintings. About the artist: Frank Dekkers, an outdoor painter, but not a "square painter" as we know him. His studio is located "everywhere", or at least outside where this artist is inspired by the landscape. A special way of summarizing leads in his paintings to a very strong and simplified image. These works invite you to walk into the landscape and to keep looking. A book has been published about Frank Dekkers, which is included when purchasing a painting...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,800
H 25.6 in W 31.89 in D 1.19 in
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Porto Capu Seninu
By Karine Bartoli
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,000
H 28.35 in W 36.23 in D 1.19 in
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Lanzarote Famara 02
By Karine Bartoli
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000
H 38.19 in W 51.19 in D 1.19 in
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Marseille
By Karine Bartoli
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,320
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 1.19 in
Golden hours that never ended - B.Schaumann Contemporary architectural Painting
By Barbara Schaumann
Located in DE
Barber Schaumann is a contemporary artist known for her vibrant, abstract interpretations of the female form. Her work combines bold colors with modern, geometric shapes, blending el...
Canvas, Oil
$2,200
H 31.89 in W 39.38 in D 0.99 in
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - 7 Personnages Skate Park
By Karine Bartoli
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,200
H 39.38 in W 31.89 in D 1.19 in
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - 2 Singers
By Karine Bartoli
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Canvas, Oil
Zizi The Parisenne
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A beautiful cosmopolitan representation of Sax Berlin's Parisian friend Zizi. Chic and self-possessed Zizi sports a green hat, an enigmatic expression and is ready to inhabit her hig...
Canvas, Oil
$6,050
H 24 in W 36 in
"Tracks in the Sand" red volkswagen bus parked on a sandy beach, sunset, light
By Rob Brooks
Located in Edgartown, MA
"Tracks in the Sand" portrays a classic red Volkswagen bus parked on the beach for sunset. There are shadowed tracks in the sand from driving, turning around and parking. Beach grass...
Canvas, Oil
$14,725
H 51.19 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
6-12-12-14, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Montse Valdés
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$580
H 15.75 in W 15.75 in
Contemporary Oil on Canvas Small Scale Work with Architectural Element
By Diana Remeikyte
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
Contemporary Lithuanian Art Piece by Multidisciplinary Artists Known for Her Precious Textile Works and Painting. "Angel Above the Entrance" is a work by a young generation multidis...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 15.5 in W 19.5 in
"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...
Paper, Lithograph