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Benny Andrews
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Fan account of Benny Andrews, an American of mixed African and European ancestry painter, printmaker, and creator of collages.
1930-2006
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Teaser (Black Athlete Study #2) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/219827
Gift of Nene Humphrey
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Strummer (Study for Symbols) https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/strummer-study-for-symbols-1970
Strummer (Study for Symbols)
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Study #35 for Sexism https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/study-35-for-sexism-1973
Study #35 for Sexism
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Leaving Home https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/leaving-home-2004
Leaving Home
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Savannah's Credit Card Protest https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/savannahs-credit-card-protest-2004
Savannah's Credit Card Protest
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Trio (Study for Symbols) https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/trio-study-for-symbols-1970
Trio (Study for Symbols)
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Come Out Fighting https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/come-out-fighting-1970
Come Out Fighting
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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No More Games (Study #1) https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/no-more-games-study-1-1970
No More Games (Study #1)
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Demagogue https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/demagogue-1990
Demagogue
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Norman Lewis https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/norman-lewis-1985
Norman Lewis
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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New York Cafe https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/105543
New York Cafe
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The Ball Game (No More Games Study #7) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/219828
Acquired through the generosity of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, and Richard S. Zeisler Bequest (by exchange)
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Pusher http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66083
John B. Turner Fund
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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War Study #13 https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/war-study-13-1974
War Study #13
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Cotton Monument https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/cotton-monument-2002
Cotton Monument
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Duchamp https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/duchamp-1985
Duchamp
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Utopia Study #16 https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/utopia-study-16-1975
Utopia Study #16
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Liberty Study #6 https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/liberty-study-6-1971
Liberty Study #6
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Sky Sash So Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/sky-sash-so-blue-1997
Sky Sash So Blue
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Down the Road https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/down-the-road-1971
Down the Road
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Flag Day https://www.artic.edu/artworks/154124/
Benny Andrews attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1954 to 1958 on the G.I. Bill. Upon graduating, he moved to New York, where he began agitating for black artists to be represented at major museums in the city. A cofounder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) in 1969, Andrews was increasingly categorized as a “protest artist.” Flag Day can be read as a harbinger of two later projects—a program Andrews organized through the BECC to teach art to inmates in New York City prisons, and a large body of work from the early 1970s he made to mark America’s bicentennial. This intimately scaled, potent painting shows a black man imprisoned by the “bars” of the American flag. Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Mrs. Carroll
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Studio https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/studio-1967
Studio
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Thurst of Life https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/thurst-of-life-1990
Thurst of Life
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Thresh Hold https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/thresh-hold-1992
Thresh Hold
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Heaven https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/heaven-1967
Heaven
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM