Benton Murdoch Spruance (American, –1967)

Timeline

1904
Born in Philadelphia, PA
1946
Gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1950
Guggenheim Fellowship
1962
Medal for Distinguished Service to Art from the Philadelphia Sketch Club
1964
Guggenheim Fellowship
1934–1965
Chairman of the Printmaking Department of the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1965
Medal of Achievement from the Philadelphia Arts Alliance
1967
Died in Philadelphia, PA
Recognized for innovations in color lithography
Studied at the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Daniel Garber
Awarded the Cresson traveling scholarship and had the opportunity to travel to France and study with Andre Lhote in Paris

Exhibitions

2011
City Views, LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2009
American Scene, American Print Exhibition, British Museum
2008
The Long Night and the New Day: lithographs by Benton Spruance, Williams College Museum of Art
1964
Beaver College Gallery (solo)
Muhlenberg College (solo)
Philadelphia Print Club (solo)
1962
Associated American Artists (solo)
Reading Museum (solo)
Sacramento Museum (solo)
1961
Edinboro State College (solo)
1960
Rehn Gallery, New York City (solo)
The Philadelphia Print Club (solo)
The Sessler Gallery, Philadelphia (solo)
Woodmere Gallery, 25 Years in Retrospect (solo)
Redlands (solo)
Texas Western University (solo)
East Carolina College (solo)
Boston Library (solo)
1959
Utah State University (solo)
The Philadelphia Museum College of Art Medal (solo)
Chestnut Hill College (solo)
Lehigh University (solo)
1958
The Sessler Gallery (solo)
1957
The Alverthorpe Gallery (solo)
1956
Louisiana State University (solo)
West Chester Art Center (solo)
The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts (solo)
1955
Rehn Gallery (solo)
Dickinson College (solo)
Pennsylvania State University (solo)
Oklahoma Art Center (solo)
1954
In Retrospect, Joslyn Museum, Omaha; Mt. Holyoke College; Swarthmore College (solo)
George Washington University (solo)
Wesleyan University (solo)

Public Collections

Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University
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 University of Mass, Amherst
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
LaSalle Art Museum, Philadelphia
Library of Congress
Meade Art Museum at Amherst College
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mount Holyoke College
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art
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
English (US)

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