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Benny Andrews : portraits : a real person before the eyes
2020
188 pages : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; Height: 12 3/16 in. (31 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Benny Andrews
American, 1930–2006
New York City
PaintingExpressionism
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
23
Works in Collection
42
Assets Indexed
3
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Expressionism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Committed to Print
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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American Drawn and Matched
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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The Artist as Adversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Untitled I
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
About
Why this artist matters now
Benny Andrews was an American painter and printmaker known for figurative work addressing social injustice and the African American experience. Working primarily in oil, acrylic, and collage throughout the postwar period, Andrews developed a gestural style that combined expressionist mark-making with direct representation of working-class subjects and protest imagery. He was active in civil rights advocacy and maintained a studio practice spanning nearly five decades until his death in 2006.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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