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Artist: Ben Wilson (American, 1913 - 2001)

Date: c. 1970
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions:
Canvas: 47 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (121.3 x 92.1 cm)
Framed: 48 3/4 x 37 1/4 in. (123.8 x 94.6 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Ben and Evelyn Wilson Foundation
Object number: 2010.4.2
Wilson was an abstract expressionist painter who began exhibiting shortly after graduating from City College in 1935. He also attended the National Academy of Design. This work, from the early seventies represents his metamorphosis from figurative painting to abstraction. During this period, his paintings became increasingly experimental, employing elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays with the suggestion of pictorial space. 
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