Baskerville

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Anthony Benjamin was born in Boarhunt, Hampshire. After initially training in engineering, he studied for a few months at the Paris studio of French artist Fernand Léger in 1951. Back in London, he attended the Regent School Polytechnic from 1951–54, during which time he partly funded his studies from his winnings as a professional flyweight boxer. He won the Silver Medal for painting in 1955 and later that year, moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where he spent his time devoted to horticulture and painting. In 1957, Benjamin received a French Government Fellowship for painting and printing which he used to study at Atelier 17, the innovative Paris studio originally established in the 1920s by the British printmaker, Stanley William Hayter. A solo exhibition of Benjamin’s work was held in 1958 at the Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. By the late 1960s, he began a successful run of international solo exhibitions that continued until 1994. He was invited to Canada in 1967 as Visiting Artist to the University of Calgary. During the 1960s and ‘70s, Benjamin taught at several universities and colleges and was for some years an associate professor at North American universities. He also published many of his own works and those by other artists at his Hope (Sufferance) Press. In the early 1980s he was commissioned to produce several public works including a mural painting, glass mural, bronze relief, and drawings and prints for the P&O Company cruise ship Royal Princess. By 2000, Benjamin’s work was represented in over 60 public museum collections in the UK and abroad, including Tate, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He spent the last years of his life based in Holt, Norfolk. After his death in 2002, memorial exhibitions were held in Manningtree, Norfolk and in St Ives.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Anthony Benjamin (1931 - 2002)

Title

Baskerville

Edition

34/95

Date

1972

Medium

Screenprint

Acquisition

Purchased from Oxford Gallery, July 1974

Inscription

below image: 34/95 / Baskerville / Benjamin 72

GAC number

11392