News from the Studio of Ben Solowey
Posted in exhibition, Rae, Studio, Theater Portraits on May 28th, 2015
We have some good news and some bad news about our next show at the Studio of Ben Solowey. Let me start with the bad news. For only the second time in 23 years, we will not be opening a new show at the Studio in June. Unfortunately my work as a curator for museums […]
Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on May 15th, 2015
James Barton was a song and dance man, famous for his drunk act. Early in his career, he frequently appeared in burlesques, and worked closely with African American dancers, eventually becoming a great eccentric dancer. The young Barton began his career at age 8, performing across the country with his parents who owned their own […]
Posted in exhibition, Rae on Jun 5th, 2014
When asked how she and Ben met, Rae wrote to her friend, writer Helen Papashvilly, “On April 5, 1930, I was having dinner with this person, a mutual Philadelphia friend of Ben’s, in the area of 72nd St. when he said ‘Let’s stop and see my friend Ben Solowey, the artist,’ which we did do, […]
Posted in exhibition on Jun 5th, 2014
This unusual work was inspired, at least according to Rae Solowey, by a landmark Matisse retrospective held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1948. the exhibition had made a great impact on Ben and perhaps he saw how matisse evolved from traditional painting, in to a more modern abstract style. I doubt Ben ever […]
Posted in exhibition on May 21st, 2014
We are also proud to announce that on June 7th when we open our new exhibition, Still Lifes by Ben Solowey, we will have a limited edition catalogue featuring most of the works in the show. This handsome 11 × 8.5 inches, 20-page publication will be $30, and will only be available during the run of this […]
Posted in exhibition on May 20th, 2014
To be organizing a show on Solowey Still Lifes in the spring, as the flowers seen in many paintings are just starting to bloom is a fascinating experience. We can know practically the month and day he painted works like Iris & Snowballs (seen at left), because those same blooms are on view right now. Of […]
Posted in exhibition on May 20th, 2014
White Gardenia and Pine Needles Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches, 1948 Rae Solowey once said that every time Ben looked out a window of his studio, he saw a new landscape to paint. He might have said the same thing about still lifes. For most of the 36 years Ben called the farm home, he […]
Posted in exhibition on Jun 1st, 2013
From Washington Jewish Week Ann Leopold Kaplan, a health policy attorney who also had leadership roles in The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, died May 24. She was 50. “If there was a hard issue to tackle, a project that needed forcefulness with a soft touch, hard […]
Posted in exhibition on May 24th, 2013
Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I write to tell you that we will have to postpone the opening of the new exhibition, Bathers by Ben Solowey at the Studio of Ben Solowey from June 1st to June 8th, due to the sudden death of Ben Solowey’s niece, and my sister, Ann Leopold […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio on May 1st, 2013
June 1 – 16, 2013 Saturdays and Sundays 1 to 5 pm and by appointment through August Opening reception Saturday, June 1st, 1 to 5 pm BEDMINSTER, PA — The Studio of Ben Solowey announces a new exhibition, Bathers by Ben Solowey, featuring paintings, drawings, and sculptures of bathers from over a half century of the […]
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