| LC control no. | n 50022499 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1930-11-13 |
| Death date | 2006-11-10 |
| Place of birth | Madison (Ga.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Air Force Art Institute of Chicago Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Art Center National Endowment for the Arts |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Painters Collage artists |
| Found in | Benny Andrews, 1975. Blind sight, 2000: CIP title page (Benny Andrews; ill.) New York times WWW site, Nov. 13, 2006 (in obituary published Nov. 12: Benny Andrews; b. Nov. 13, 1930, Plainview, Ga.; d. Friday [Nov. 10, 2006], Brooklyn, aged 75; figural expressionistic painter and teacher whose paintings, prints, drawings, and collages drew on his African American roots in Georgia) African American National Biography, accessed November 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Andrews, Benny; Benny Andrews; collage artist, artist's model, muralist; born 13 November 1930 in Madison, Georgia, United States; joined the United States Air Force and fought in the Korean War until (1954); enroled at Art Institute of Chicago (1954); graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago started as a professional artist in New York (1958); began to show in at group exhibitions such as the Detroit Institute Thirteenth Biennial of Painting and Sculpture (1959); his first one-man show was at Kessler gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts (1960); member of the Forum Gallery; his work was selected for the New York World Fair (1965); became a professor at Queens College (1969); commissioned to paint a mural for the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta (1980); served as the director of the visual arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts (1982-1984); Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans offered him a permanent gallery within the facility (2001); died 10 November 2006 in New York, New York, United States) |
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