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Benny Andrews Permanent Collection Exhibition

 

 

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Benny Andrews Permanent Collection Exhibition


Grandmother's Dinner

Benny Andrews, Grandmother’s Dinner, 1992, Oil and collage, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation


ON VIEW YEAR-ROUND

Benny Andrews was born in 1930 to a mixed-race family (Cherokee-Scottish-African American) in rural Plainview, Georgia. After becoming the first member of his family to graduate from high school, he attended Fort Valley State College supported by a scholarship. He was not allowed to attend the University of Georgia due to the color of his skin. In 1954, after serving as a military policeman in the Korean War, he used the GI Bill to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studying under Kathleen Blackshear. No longer constrained by the racial laws of the South, he entered an art museum and saw original masterworks for the first time in 1954, an experience that brought tears to his eyes. Benny Andrews rose from the injustices of the Jim Crow South to become a leading voice in American painting. Drawing from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s premier collection of works by Benny Andrews, this ongoing exhibition celebrates one of the South’s greatest voices in the visual arts.


Gallery

Benny Andrews, Eudora, 1978, Oil and Collage, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation
Benny Andrews, Death of the Crow, 1965, Oil and collage, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation
Benny Andrews, Death’s Arrival, 1996, Oil and collage on paper, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation
Benny Andrews, The Poverty of it All, 1965, Oil on canvas, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation
Benny Andrews, Interior with Cat, 1988, Oil and collage, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation
Benny Andrews, Mother Death, 1992, Oil and collage, Gift of the Benny Andrews Foundation
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*Thursday admission from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation

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