biography of Karl Stanley BENJAMIN (1925-2012)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Claremont, CA

Profession: Painter, instructor

Studied: Northwestern Univ.; Univ. Redlands, BA, 1949; Claremont Grad. Sch., MA, 1960.

Exhibited: 4 Abstract Classicists (Western Coast Hard Edge), LACMA & SFMA, also shown Inst. Contemp. Art, London, Eng., 1959; Purist Painting, Am. Fedn. Arts traveling exhib., shown at Andrew Dickson White Mus. (Cornell), Walker Art Ctr., Minneapolis, Speed Mus., Louisville, KY, 1960; Geometric Abstraction in America, WMAA, 1962; The Responsive Eye, MoMA, 1965; Corcoran Gal., 1967; Henri Gallery, Wash., DC and William Sawyer Gal., San Francisco, 1970s.

Work: WMAA; LACMA; SFMA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn; Pasadena Art Mus.

Comments: Teaching: instr., Calif. Pub. Schs., Chino & others, 1949-70s.