Origina oil Collage African American NY Andrews Benny Start Price USD 7,999.00 Current Price USD 7,999.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 14,999.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location Tel Aviv See more about 'Origina oil Collage African American NY Andrews Benny' Description Original African American Collage Girl New York Andrews Description Original Oil and Collage on Cardboard   By American artist Benny Andrews "Young Girl" General Description: A beautiful oil and collage piece of a young  dark haired girl. This is an early work of Andrews which makes it a collectors and dealers treasure. It has been bought from the glass gallery in NY (photographed). Bold colors that don't imitate reality, thick layers of paint and different kinds of paper. Materials & Medium: oil Mixed Media on cardboard Time Period:1962 Signature Present: Present, lower right corner (pictured) Style: Expressionism Measurements: Height 19.1  inches 48.5  cm width 12 inches 30.5 cm About the artist: Benny Andrews nationally recognized as an artist, teacher, author, Activist and advocate of the arts. Grew up in rural Morgan country. Although he moved to New York in 1958, his formative years in Georgia continued to inform his work. Andrews explored American life in his collages, prints, paintings, and drawings by fusing memory and imagination. Andrews was born on November 13, 1930, in Plainview, a small farming community three miles from Madison. His mother, Viola, instilled in her ten children the importance of education, religion, and freedom of expression; his father, George, a self-taught artist, fueled their creativity with his drawings and illustrations. When Andrew arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago in the fall of 1954, he had never visited an art museum nor had a formal art lesson. His distinctive figurative style developed from his childhood habits. Andrews and his brother Raymond,  who became a novelist, saved illustrations from newspapers,  magazines, and comic books,  which Andrews then copied. He created original drawings based on the observed  gestures and expressions of those around him or from memories of characters he saw at the movies.  With an economy of lines and elongated figures,  he emphasized gesture and subtle expression. Within his first six years of residence in New York, Andrews became an established artist. His work was accepted for exhibition in New York;  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; and Provincetown, Rhode Island. His first solo exhibition at the Forum Gallery in New York received favorable reviews in the New York Times and other publications.  He became part of the art scene, met other practicing artists, sketched people in the jazz clubs, and worked out of his studio. He also tended to his three young children while his  wife worked outside of their home. Andrews received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1965 and used it to  return to Georgia. His Autobiographical Series of paintings was inspired by this trip,  and it established his affinity for producing several works unified by a theme.  Subsequent series include Bicentennial, Women I've Known, Completing the Circle,  Southland, America, Cruelty and Sorrows, Revival, Music, Langston Hughes, and The Migrants. In the next decades Andrews's artwork was exhibited nationally and internationally he taught at Queens College of the City University of New York for twenty-nine years;  and he was a visiting lecturer at many colleges and universities across the country. He became a leading spokesperson for artists whose works were not considered for  exhibition in the large public institutions in New York. He was a cofounder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition in 1969 and led both protests and negotiations in order to  bring awareness and inclusion of work by minority and women artists into major collections and exhibitions. Andrews wrote articles, curated exhibitions, and established an art program in the New York state prison system, which served as a model for  other similar programs throughout the country.  He and his second wife, the artist Nene Humphrey, established the Benny  Andrews Foundation, which aims to introduce art to as vast and diverse an audience as possible. Raymond Andrews's first book, Appalachee Red, was published in 1978 and contained illustrations by Benny, who illustrated all of his brother's  subsequent novels, several other books, and children's books,  including Sky Sash So Blue by Libby Hathorn, The Hickory Chair by Lisa Rowe Fraustino, and Pictures for Miss Josie by Sandra Belton.  From 1982 through 1984 Andrews served as director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts. Andrews was the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including election into the  National Academy in 1997. His work is owned by more than thirty major art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York,  the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago,  and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He died in New York in November 2006. Although Andrews dealt with such difficult subjects as slavery,  the Holocaust, and the American response to revolt and war, his figurative expressionistic style celebrates the human spirit  and the pursuit of the American Dream.         Payment Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information Tel 972-3-5244110 urban972@gmail.com Worldwide shipping Standard Delivery - EMS International (Between 3 and 7 days) Local Shipment Items can be shipped for NIS 88.00 Local Pickup General items can be picked-up from our Tel-Aviv offices for a handling fee of NIS 40.00. Combined Shipping Discounts Each item in a combined sipping can be shipped for 50% of the stated shipping price PLEASE NOTE: Insurance is optional. The insurance costs will be around 3% of the purchase price. Please be advised- we strongly recommend that shipping insurance be taken. 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