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Ben Messick (1891-1981)
Plantation Party
14 3/4 x 18 inches
- Lithograph, 1940, edition limited but unknown.
- Signed and dated on the stone, lower
right
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- $575
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6% sales tax in Kentucky
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- Benjamin Newton Messick was born in Missouri but moved to
Los Angeles, California, after serving in France in World War
I. He pursued a career as an artist, becoming known as "the
American Daumier" for his WPA-era genre scenes much like
the one here.
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- During the Great Depression, Messick painted murals in Los
Angeles and in Washington, D.C., as part of the Works Progress
Administration program. He worked for the Disney Studios and
MGM in the 1940s. He taught at the Chouinard Art Institute and
at the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts.
His work has been widely exhibited and is included in such collections
as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Laguna Art Museum,
also in California, and the Springfield Museum of Art in Missouri.
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