Amen Corner - Benny Andrews (NEW)
Amen Corner, Benny Andrews

Amen Corner

Artist

Benny Andrews

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

Medium

Offset Lithograph

Date

1985

Dimensions

30 x 21 inches

Edition Size

50 prints in this edition

Printer

Robert "Bob" Franklin

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Location

Philadelphia, PA

About the Work

From the Artist

I'm trying to contribute to the development of a kind of equality, visually...I'd like to contribute to heaven on earth, which I don't believe we're ever going to get. But these are the things. And I don't want to sacrifice the artistic mirrors of my work in the process. So that is my problem. I want to show the Negro as the man he is. I would like to depict man on a higher level than animals. I want them all to come together. It's pretty nearly impossible but that's what I'm trying to do.
—Benny Andrews, 1968 (Fraustino, Lisa Rowe. The Hickory Chair. Illustrated by Benny Andrews. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001)

About the Artist

Benny Andrews

Benny Andrews was an American painter, educator, and activist. He was born in Plainview, GA, in 1930. Andrews earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958 and, soon after, moved to New York City.

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