News from the Studio of Ben Solowey
Posted in Europe 1924, exhibition on Sep 22nd, 2024
Ben’s five months in Europe ended with a trip to Switzerland to paint in Engelberg and Lucerne. Ben was able to take this trip to “the top of the world,” as a friend wrote on the back of a photo of Ben in the Swiss mountains, because he had received notification from the United […]
Posted in archive, Europe 1924, exhibition on Aug 18th, 2024
Even as a young man, Ben Solowey was practical. He came to Europe to study and learn, as well as to travel with friends, but he understood that it was crucial for him to use the time to help himself when he returned home. When Ben received permission to paint at the Louvre, his goal […]
Posted in archive, Europe 1924, exhibition, Theater Portraits on Aug 14th, 2024
Even though Ben Solowey spent the summer in Paris in 1924, he retained his work ethic. When he was not painting plein air around the city, he took croquis classes at the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (now known as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs) at 107 rue de Rivoli in the Marsan wing of […]
Posted in Europe 1924, exhibition on Jun 28th, 2024
After a ten day ocean voyage, Ben Solowey landed in London on June 22, 1924. Ten years earlier he had left the continent as a 14-year-old teenager with his family who were escaping pogroms and forced conscription in St Peterburg, Russia. He knew no English, nor was his education up to American standards. The family […]
Posted in Europe 1924, exhibition on Jun 28th, 2024
Ben Solowey won many awards while enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Right from the start, his Ramborger Award-winning drawing of an Academy charwoman was reproduced in the school’s catalogue in his sophomore year. Nevertheless, he did not win a Cresson scholarship, which provided at least $1,000 for study abroad. […]
Posted in exhibition, Rae, Studio, Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2022
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of The Studio of Ben Solowey presenting regular interpretative exhibitions at the Solowey Studio. In that time we have presented 40 exhibitions displaying more than 1,000 works by Ben. There have been paintings in oil, watercolor, casein, and gouache. Drawings in charcoal, pen, lithographic crayon, conté crayon, pencil, and marker. […]
Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on Mar 17th, 2019
When producer Max Gordon came to John D. Rockefeller about investing in a musical based on Johann Strauss’ relationship with his father, set to Strauss’s most popular melodies with new lyrics, and a book by Moss Hart, he had no idea that Rockefeller would not only say yes, but offer the brand new Center Theatre, […]
Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on Mar 17th, 2019
Charles “Chic†Sale was a vaudevillian whose specialty was playing “rural parts’ or what we would call country bumpkins. He was successful enough at it that the Shuberts put him in their annual Passing Show revues, and even Ziegfeld put him into one of his Midnight Frolics. He found fame in 1929 writing The Specialist, […]
Posted in archive, exhibition, Theater Portraits on Mar 17th, 2019
The Cole Porter musical Anything Goes cemented Ethel Merman’s status as a star. While she had made a hit in the Gershwin’s Girl Crazy three seasons before, Anything Goes, filled with a hit laden score that includes “I Get a Kick Out of You,†“You’re the Top,†“Blow, Gabriel, Blow,†and the title tune, showed […]
Posted in exhibition, Special event, Studio on Sep 23rd, 2018
Enjoy this footage of Karen Gross “misbehavin’” from her June 2018 appearance at the Solowey Studio
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