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Birth
1925 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
2012 (Claremont, California)
Lived/Active
California
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modernist figure, hard edge, geometric imagery, teaching
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Obituary. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2012
By Suzanne Muchnic, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Karl Benjamin, a painter of dazzling geometric abstractions who established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and created a highly acclaimed body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variations, has died. He was 86.
Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Claremont, said (showing 500 of 9608 characters). |
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