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Ben L Culwell

Ben L. Culwell (1918 - 1992) was active/lived in Texas, New York.  Ben Culwell is known for Abstract figurative expression, painterly, gestural.

Ben L. Culwell ~~A Brief Introduction
(b. San Antonio, Texas 1918—d. Temple, Texas 1992)

"It is for the important average that I want to speak, the rank and file. The general nature of the use I try to make of the art of painting is, I hope, apparent: that is, to express the sum of relationships which is a total human being. With art, as with atomic physics, the big problem in the world today is to bring the human being abreast of the techniques and the inventions of his material culture—to achieve an adequate modern spiritual integrity."
---Ben Culwell, in "Fourteen Americans" catalogue, 1946/Museum of Modern Art

Ben Culwell was a figure within the first generation of Abstract Expressionism, a movement which began in the early 1940s and became a dominant style in American painting from the late 1940's into the 1950s. Culwell, whose career was based in Texas, continued to develop his body of Abstract Expressionist paintings into the later 20th cent   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11057 characters.]  Artist bio

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