1871179

Benny Andrews, Glider, Lithograph #1871179

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Benny Andrews, Glider, Lithograph #1871179
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Artist: Benny Andrews

Title: Glider


Year: 1980


Medium: Lithograph [Signed and Numbered in Pencil]


Edition: 275


Paper Size: 30" x 22"



Benny Andrews could be called a minimalist. His drawings, oils, and collages, created oven the past forty years, were all done in a similar manner, and Andrews has been quoted as saying that he was not interested in how much he could do on canvas but how little. At the beginning of his career, Andrews always wanted to express black experience through his art, but he found during his studies at the Chicago Art Institute that it was a difficult thing to do. Boris Mango and Jack Levine were the people at the Institute who inspired him to continue to make art in his own way. Andrews began his own style of painting in the 1960s, when the collage movement started to flourish. He was using geometrical forms in his art, and abstract expressionism became a personal movement for him. Even though he has very little going on in his pieces, the message is as effective as if the composition were on a much larger scale. His drawing Mourners (Study for Appalachee Red) from 1977 shows only the outline of man and a woman with their backs to the viewers. Their stooped postures in front of a small casket make one feel the sadness and the agony of losing a loved one. The Preacher, also from 1977, is a simple drawing that reminds viewers of early- morning Sunday sermons. Andrews is a humanist and crusader, whose portraits depict his personal ...
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<tr><td>Condition:excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1980</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Benny Andrews, Glider, Lithograph</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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