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Ben Benson

Ben Benson (1927 - 2002) was active/lived in Illinois.  Ben Benson is known for Mixed media geometric abstraction.

Obituary. Chicago Tribune, November 8, 2002

Ben Benson, 74

Artist known for small, gemlike paintings

By Alan G. Artner, Tribune art critic.

Ben Benson, 74, a burly Chicago-area artist who for decades created delicate geometric abstractions that achieved a sublimity beyond local taste, died Tuesday, Nov. 5, of cardiac arrest.  He recently had undergone radiation treatment for cancer, following years of debilitation from secondary diabetes.

A Northwestern University journalism graduate in the 1950s, Mr. Benson turned to visual art as a means of gaining the pleasure he found lacking in writing.  Nevertheless, his first novel, "Cain's Wife," published under his formal name, O.G. Benson, became a cult favorite and was declared an "unsuspected classic" before being reprinted in the mid-1980s.

His small, gemlike paintings--any work larger than a foot square was huge for him--were admired for their purity and grace, despi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2396 characters.]  Artist bio

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