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CONTEMPORARY

Norman Ackroyd
Peter Brooke
Lynne Clibanoff
Steven Ford
David Kelso
David Shapiro
Shelley Thorstensen
Cheryl Warrick

MODERN

Morris Blackburn
Stanley William Hayter
Paul Keene
Thomas Lias
Judith Rothschild
Benton M. Spruance
Dox Thrash

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Benton M. Spruance

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Benton Spruance was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1904. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Daniel Garber. While completing his studies he was awarded the Cresson traveling scholarship and had the opportunity to travel to France and study with Andre Lhote in Paris.

He exhibited his work at the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, National Academy of Design, among other national print exhibitions. His work has been shown in many solo shows at galleries, museums, and universities around the country.  The Long Night and the New Day: lithographs by Benton Spruance was mounted at the Williams College Museum of Art in 2008.   His lithographs were included in the British Museum's American print exhibition, American Scene, 2009, and City Views, 2011, was organized by the LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia.

He was a pioneer in developing color lithography techniques and was awarded numerous prizes, including a gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1946, the Medal for Distinguished Service to Art from the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1962, and the Medal of Achievement from the Philadelphia Arts Alliance in 1965. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship twice, once in 1950 and once in 1964.

 

Museum Collections:

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art
The British Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art
Cantor Arts Center, Stamford University
Cleveland Museum of Art
Free Library, Philadelphia
Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California
LaSalle Art Museum, Philadelphia
Library of Congress

Meade Art Museum at Amherst College

Mount Holyoke College
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art
New York Public Library
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Free Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian Museum of American Art
Smith College Museum of Art

Spartanburg Art Museum

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
Tate Modern, London
Terra Foundation for American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art

Wichita Art Museum

Williams College Museum of Art

Wolfsonian Foundation

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia

Meade Art Museum at Amherst College

University Gallery at the Unversity of Mass, Amherst

Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University