News from the Studio of Ben Solowey
Posted in archive, exhibition on Oct 1st, 2008
Ben’s sketchbook provides a window into his New York Studio where the Casco Bay Screen served both practical and aesthetic needs. A large portrait, presumably of Rae leans against the screen in the corner of the room. It covers a door, whose transom is open.
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 on Jun 20th, 2008
Our new show, WATER & LIGHT: The Watercolors of Ben Solowey, is a hit with what we refer to as the three C’s: Critics, Crowds and Collectors. This Sunday there will be a nice review of the exhibition in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Next week, The Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer are publishing a […]
Posted in exhibition on Jun 10th, 2008
There will be more than watercolors in our new exhibition. For the first time in thirty years, visitors will see a striking portrait of a dear friend of Ben and Rae Solowey: Viginia Widenmeyer (nee Castleton). Virigina was a writer living in the area who met the Soloweys through her husband. Ben and Rae so […]
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 on May 9th, 2008
WATER & LIGHT: The Watercolors of Ben Solowey, the ultimate collection of works in watercolor, casein, and gouache by Ben Solowey will open to the public on Saturday June 7th at the Solowey Studio in Bedminster, PA with a reception from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The installation will continue Saturdays and Sundays, 1 p.m. […]
Posted in exhibition on Apr 7th, 2008
Studio Director David Leopold’s latest project is a unique installation for the Shaw Festival celebrating Al Hirschfeld’s drawings of George Bernard Shaw’s productions in america over seven decades. Over those seven decades, Hirschfeld saw most major Shaw productions on and off-Broadway. Beginning with the Theatre Guild’s Major Barbara (1929), Hirschfeld captured the quicksilver of Katharine […]
Posted in exhibition on Oct 15th, 2007
Many people remember our 2004 exhibition of the works of Charles Ward. Ward was a friend of Ben’s and lived only minutes away from the Solowey studio. In 1932 he moved to Carversville, Pennsylvania, where he maintained a studio for thirty years until his death. He drew his inspiration from the surrounding scene there, and […]
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