Fletcher Benton - Steel Watercolor print #120, 1986

Watercolor on paper print
Pencil titled, editioned and signed with name and printed signature
Pencil numbered 25/25
This work is floated in it's original vintage wood frame under UV plexiglass.
Measurements:
Framed
19 inches (vertical) by 19 inches (horizontal) by 2 inches
Watercolor:
8.75 inches (vertical) by 8.75 inches (horizontal)

All my years as a sign painter, layout, proportion is very important, because you’ve got a given space which you have to go in and break up the space and you always work from the center out....I was always very sensitive to the negative space between the letters....because that got into composition, that got into making a statement that was fixed. And that statement had to have impact, it had to have certain rhythms and certain color combinations.

FLETCHER BENTON BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1931 in Jackson, Ohio, Benton received his undergraduate degree in fine art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He left Ohio and began teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in 1959. He also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute (1966-67) and at the San Jose campus of California State University (1967-86). His sculptures have been in solo and group exhibitions throughout that state since early in his career. Benton has also been given one-person shows in Belgium, Germany, Venezuela, Argentina, and Korea. Works by Benton are in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, CO; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; The Milwaukee Art Center, WI, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Oakland Museum and Sculpture Garden, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY and other major museums, universities and corporations.