The Artists
Benny Andrews
(1930 - )
Additional Links:
 Southside Gallery
Picasso Mio
Ro Gallery
Multimedia:
Online Documentary
Curriculum Materials :
Lesson Plan, Wichita Art Museum
Lesson Plan, Morris Museum
Works Online:
High Museum of Art
Morris Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
University Museums, University of Delaware
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| African-American artist Benny Andrews was born in
Madison, Georgia on November 13, 1930. He received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree from the Chicago Art Institute in 1958. He served as the Director
of the Visual Art Program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982-84.
Known for his collage works as well as sculpture, illustrations, drawings,
paintings, and prints, he is also a writer and critic and was a professor
at Queens College in New York. His work is part of the permanent collections
of: the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Brooklyn Museum in New York;
the Detroit Institute of Art; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; the Hirshbom
Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.;
the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia; the Butler Institute of Art in
Youngstown, Ohio; and the O'Hara Museum in Tokyo. |
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