News from the Studio of Ben Solowey
Posted in Europe 1924, exhibition on Jun 28th, 2024
After a ten day ocean voyage, Ben Solowey landed in London on June 22, 1924. Ten years earlier he had left the continent as a 14-year-old teenager with his family who were escaping pogroms and forced conscription in St Peterburg, Russia. He knew no English, nor was his education up to American standards. The family […]
Posted in Europe 1924, exhibition on Jun 28th, 2024
Ben Solowey won many awards while enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Right from the start, his Ramborger Award-winning drawing of an Academy charwoman was reproduced in the school’s catalogue in his sophomore year. Nevertheless, he did not win a Cresson scholarship, which provided at least $1,000 for study abroad. […]
Posted in exhibition, Rae, Studio, Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2022
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of The Studio of Ben Solowey presenting regular interpretative exhibitions at the Solowey Studio. In that time we have presented 40 exhibitions displaying more than 1,000 works by Ben. There have been paintings in oil, watercolor, casein, and gouache. Drawings in charcoal, pen, lithographic crayon, conté crayon, pencil, and marker. […]
Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on Mar 17th, 2019
When producer Max Gordon came to John D. Rockefeller about investing in a musical based on Johann Strauss’ relationship with his father, set to Strauss’s most popular melodies with new lyrics, and a book by Moss Hart, he had no idea that Rockefeller would not only say yes, but offer the brand new Center Theatre, […]
Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on Mar 17th, 2019
Charles “Chic†Sale was a vaudevillian whose specialty was playing “rural parts’ or what we would call country bumpkins. He was successful enough at it that the Shuberts put him in their annual Passing Show revues, and even Ziegfeld put him into one of his Midnight Frolics. He found fame in 1929 writing The Specialist, […]
Posted in archive, exhibition, Theater Portraits on Mar 17th, 2019
The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes cemented Ethel Merman’s status as a star. While she had made a hit in the Gershwin’s Girl Crazy three seasons before, Anything Goes, filled with a hit laden score that includes “I Get a Kick Out of You,†“You’re the Top,†“Blow, Gabriel, Blow,†and the title tune, showed […]
Posted in exhibition, Special event, Studio on Sep 23rd, 2018
Enjoy this footage of Karen Gross “misbehavin’” from her June 2018 appearance at the Solowey Studio
Posted in exhibition, Special event on May 18th, 2018
Sherlock Jr. Starring Buster Keaton with live musical accompaniment by theater organist Brett Miller June 16, 2018 Doors open 7:30 pm; Film at 8:00 pm Did you ever wish to know what it was like in the 1920s? Time travel may still be far off, but for one night we hope to transport you back to […]
Posted in archive, exhibition, photo, Rae, Special event, Studio, Theater Portraits on Jan 13th, 2017
2017 marks two special anniversaries for The Studio of Ben Solowey. 75 years ago, Ben and Rae Solowey moved permanently to Bucks County. 25 years ago, we began to present regular interpretive exhibitions at the Solowey studio of Ben’s work, his contemporaries, and occasionally a contemporary artist. Our plan is to celebrate both anniversaries this […]
Posted in exhibition, Special event on Jan 12th, 2017
For more than 25 years I have both literally and figuratively looked over the artist’s shoulder as he/she works at an easel. That’s what curators do. We want to see not only what the artist has created, but when possible, how they did it, what was their motivation, and what was the context. Sometimes it […]
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