News from the Studio of Ben Solowey
Posted in exhibition, Studio on Apr 3rd, 2009
AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THE WORLD OF BEN SOLOWEY New Exhibition Explores Small Paintings and Drawings BEDMINSTER, PA — The Studio of Ben Solowey is pleased to announce a new exhibition, AN INTIMATE VIEW: Small Paintings and Drawings by Ben Solowey, featuring a never-before-assembled collection of small works by Ben Solowey (1900 – 1978). The […]
Posted in Studio on Feb 6th, 2009
When it snows here at the Solowey Studio it really is beautiful. Ben loved to paint winter snow scenes and in his later years, he fashioned a chair to have a surface to draw on so he could turn it toward the window and draw wintry scenes when the drifts got too high to go […]
Posted in archive, exhibition, Studio on Sep 28th, 2008
The trip that launched both the Solowey marriage and this exhibition was the Soloweys’ summer-long “honeymoon” to Casco Bay, Maine. it surely was a heady time for the couple and it inspired Ben. In our new exhibition there are three views of the same rocky promontory in Casco Bay. The photograph is Ben’s own contact […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio on Sep 20th, 2008
Two great American presidents will be appearing at the Solowey Studio during the run of our new exhibition. In honor of the Election Season, oil portraits of both John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Ben Solowey will be on view. Also included is a 1936 campaign poster for Congressman Guy Swope, who would […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio on Sep 11th, 2008
The Studio of Ben Solowey is pleased to announce a new exhibition, THE FOLDING IMAGE: The Interesting Life of a Painted Screen, featuring a 1930 folding screen by Ben Solowey (1900 – 1978), and including paintings, drawings, and photographs that inspired it and works it was featured in. The exhibition will open to the public […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio, Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2008
There are landscapes, portraits, figurative pieces, and still lifes in our new show, WATER & LIGHT: The Watercolors of Ben Solowey, covering a nearly fifty year period. Almost exactly sixty four years from our June 7th opening you could have seen the same work Spring Flowers – Iris & Daisies at the opening of […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio on Jun 6th, 2007
How did Ben and Rae get to “the farm,” as they often referred to this property? They were married six years before they found this spot. City dwellers in Manhattan on Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street, like many New Yorkers, the Soloweys left town in the summertime. They went North to find good climate, rustic […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio on Apr 17th, 2007
BEDMINSTER, PA — The Studio of Ben Solowey is pleased to announce a new exhibition, ON THE ROAD: Ben Solowey’s American Landscapes, an extraordinary collection of landscape paintings, drawings, and prints by Ben Solowey (1900 – 1978) of vistas off his Bucks County property. The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday June 2nd […]
Posted in exhibition, Studio on Sep 2nd, 2005
Ben Solowey’s surrounding environment was his hunting ground. He felt that there was a landscape to paint out of every window. Many of his floral still lifes painted in Bucks County were culled from his own garden. His portraits of Rae provide ample evidence that he did not have to go far to be inspired. […]
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