biografía de Ben NORRIS (1910-2006)

Lugar de nacimiento: Redlands, CA

Direcciones: Honolulu, HI, 1936-

Profesión: Painter, educator, etcher

Estudios: Pomona Col.; Harvard Univ.; Inst. Art & Archeology, Sorbonne, Paris; Otis AI; Harvard; Chouinard AI; also with Stanton MacDonald Wright, F. Taubes, Jean Charlot, Max Ernst & Josef Albers.

Exposiciones: Calif. WCS, 1935-41; Pomona Col., 1935, 1946; Oakland, 1936 (prize); Honolulu Acad. Art, 1936 (solo), 1938 (prize), 1940, 1941 (prize)-42, 1944 (prize); AIC, 1938-41; Phila. WCC, 1938-40; AWCS, 1938-39; WFNY, 1939; PAFA Ann., 1941; Honolulu PM, 1943 (prize); CPLH, 1945; Crocker Art Gal., Sacramento, 1946; Santa Barbara Mus. Art, 1946; SAM, 1946; MMAA Mid-Century Exhib., 1951; Saxon Gal., Honolulu, 1970s.

Asociaciones: Calif. WCS; Phila. WCC; Honolulu AA; Honolulu PM; Laguna Beach AA.

Obra: LOC; NYPL; Honolulu Acad. Arts, Hawaii; Officer's Club, Pearl Harbor; M. McInerny, Ltd., Honolulu Nat. Collection Fine Arts, Wash., DC; Am. Federation Arts Mus. Coll.; U.S. State Dept. Art In Embassies Program; Oregon State Univ. Mus. Commissions: murals, First Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, all in Honolulu; & Royal Lahaina Hotel, Maui.

Comentarios: Paintings on Army Aviation, Hawaii. Preferred media: watercolors, oils. Contributor: Life magazine. Teaching: Kamehameha School for Boys, Honolulu, 1936; instructor, prof. & head of art dept., Univ. Hawaii, 1937-.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Forbes, Encounters with Paradise, 214, 260-61; Falk, Exh. Record Series.