Ben Benn (1884-1983)

“Sea Gulls”

Russian born in 1884, he emigrated to America in 1899, along with Man Ray and Max Weber.  The American still life and Landscape painter, died at age 98, and was the first generation of American artists in the Cubist movement of painting.  His pictorial approach was always marked by Cezanne and Cubism and his instintive feeling for color and line.  His first group show was in 1913 when he exhibited with Man Ray and Max Weber.